Editor

Suha Taji-Farouki est conférencier en Histoire islamique moderne à l’Université d’Exeter (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies) et Chercheur associé à l’Institute of Ismaili Studies de Londres

Contributors

Vincent Cornell Suha Taji-Farouki Abdullah Saeed Tony Johns and Abdallah Saeed Asma Barlas Osman Tastan Ursula Guenther Navid Kermani Farzin Vahdat Andreas Christmann Ron Nettler Suha Taji-Farouki Homan Panahande Andrew Rippin Nasr Abu Zayd

Presentation

This volume examines the writings of ten Muslim intellectuals, working in the Muslim world and the West, who employ contemporary critical methods to understand the Qur’an. Their work points to a new trend in Muslim interpretation, characterised by a direct engagement with the Word of God while embracing intellectual modernity in a global context. The volume situates and evaluates their work and responses to it among Muslim and non-Muslim audiences.

Content

Notes on Contributors

• 1.: Suha Taji-Farouki: Introduction
• 2.: Abdullah Saeed: Fazlur Rahman: a framework for interpreting the ethico-legal content of the Qur’an
• 3.: Anthony H. Johns and Abdullah Saeed: Nurcholish Madjid and the interpretation of the Qur’an: religious pluralism and tolerance
• 4.: Asma Barlas: Amina Wadud’s hermeneutics of the Qur’an: women rereading sacred texts
• 5.: Ursula Guenther: Mohamed Arkoun: towards a radical rethinking of Islamic thought
• 6.: Navid Kermani: From revelation to interpretation: Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd and the literary study of the Qur’an
• 7.: Farzin Vahdat: Post-revolutionary Islamic modernity in Iran: the inter-subjective hermeneutics of Mohamad Mojtahed Shabestari
• 8.: Ronald L. Nettler: Mohamed Talbi on understanding the Qur’an
• 9.: Osman Tastan: Hüseyin Atay’s approach to understanding the Qur’an
• 10.: Andreas Christmann: ’The form is permanent, but the content moves’: The Qur’anic text and its interpretation(s) in Mohamed Shahrour’s al-Kitab wal-Qur’an
• 11.: Suha Taji-Farouki: Modern intellectuals, Islam, and the Qur’an: the example of Sadiq Nayhum

(Source : Oxford University Press)