Studying the Qur)Q=an in the Muslim Academy

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-006754-0
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Studying the Qur'an in the Muslim Academy examines what it is like to study and teach the Qur'an at academic institutions in the Muslim world, and how politics affect scholarly interpretations of the text. Guided by the author's own journey as a student, university lecturer, and researcher in Iran, Malaysia, and New Zealand, this book provides vivid accounts of the complex academic politics he encountered. Majid Daneshgar describes the selective translation and editing of Edward Said's classic work Orientalism into various Islamic languages, and the way Said's work is weaponized to question the credibility of contemporary Western-produced scholarship in Islamic studies. Daneshgar also examines networks of journals, research centers, and universities in both Sunni and Shia contexts, and looks at examples of Quranic interpretation there. Ultimately, he offers a constructive program for enriching Islamic studies by fusing the best of Western theories with the best philological practices developed in Muslim academic contexts, aimed at encouraging respectful but critical engagement with the Qur'an.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daneshgar, Majid

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Religionspädagogik, Religionsdidaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Dedication

- Acknowledgments

- Preface: "Here is New York" and my research concerns

- Introduction

- I. A taboo breaking project

- II. Study organization

- Chapter 1: "Islamic Apologetics" and Islamic Studies

- I. On"Islamic Apologetics"

- II. Western Islamic studies

- III. Modern trends in Qur'anic studies

- IV. Studying Islam outside its core lands

- Chapter 2: The Qur'an in the Muslim Academy: What Should Be Censored?

- I. Muslims' views of western Islamic studies

- II. Western works in the Muslim academy: Rippin's Qur'anic studies

- III. Studying the Qur'an in Muslim universities and seminaries

- IV. Reading the Qur'an with other materials

- V. Self-sufficiency in academic production

- VI. Muslims' reading of Muhammad's adopted son, Zayd

- Chapter 3: The Sectarian Study of Islam: A Culture of Isolation and the Isolation of Cultures

- I. From the Islamization of Biblical literature to the sectarianizing of the Muslim academy

- II. The Forgotten East

- III. Reception and marginalization of minorities

- IV. Forgetting the language and culture of everywhere/always

- Chapter 4: Hatred of Iinferiority and Confrontation with the West: Forgetting Some; Remembering Others

- I. Forgetting western scholars of the Qur'an: origins

- II. E. W. Said's Orientalism

- III. Muslim study of the Qur'an in the light of Orientalism

- IV. Mis-understanding of Europeans in Orientalism

- V. Remembering scientists

- Final Remarks

- I. Conclusions

- II. "Islamic Apologetics" everywhere

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Majid Daneshgar, Ph.D. is a Research Associate at the Orientalisches Seminar, University of Freiburg, Germany. He is also an alumnus of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), where he worked on textual censorship in Islamic literature. He is interested in method and theory in the study of religion, critical thinking theories, and Islamic intellectual and exegetical progress, as well as Malay Islamic studies. His publications include Islamic Studies Today (2016), The Qur'an in the Malay Indonesian World (2016), and Tantawi Jawhari and the Qur'an (2017).