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Suspensions : Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thou - Mohammad Salama

Suspensions

Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thou

By: Mohammad Salama, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh (Editor), Lucian Stone (Editor)

Hardcover | 17 May 2018 | Edition Number 1

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Mohammad Salama offers a history and analysis of Quranic and literary scholarship in 20th-century Egypt, by focusing on the work of Taha Huysan and Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd. Providing detailed analyses of texts, genres, and events that have, over the decades, inflamed the debate on the validity of literary criticism in approaching the Quran, it gives the modern reader guidance on the labyrinthine semantics that underlie the sacred text and inform scholarship.

The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism also provides stimulating reflections on Quranic exegesis by an influential group of classical authors including al-Baqillani, al-Jurjani, al-Ghazali, and ibn 'Arabi. Over the centuries the Arabic language has experienced morphological and phonological mutations that render many dependent on dictionaries and cut off from the past linguistically. The linguistic boundaries between classical poetry and contemporary writings represents the widest breach in the history of Arabic literature.

Salama demonstrates that while this divide explains much of the intellectual poverty of 'new' approaches to Quranic exegesis, the work of these two scholars in the Arab world marks a sharp departure from so-called 'right thinking'. Through analysis of the writings of Taha and Nasr, he argues that a fresh look at the sources and a revolutionary attempt to revitalize Islam can render tradition itself an impetus for a new kind of literary criticism.

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This is one of the best studies to appear on the central debate in modern Islam: How should Muslims study the Qur'an? Previous scholarship has approached this question from a theological angle. The fact is that the study of the Qur'an in modern Islam was intimately tied to a debate about literature and the formation of an Arabic literary canon. Salama's study is a brilliant analysis of the literary battles over the nature of the Qur'an and its place in relationship to a literary canon. This is a must read and will change how we understand the very nature of modern Qur'an commentary.
Walid A. Saleh, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada

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