Qur’an Commentary and the Biblical Turn : : A History of Muslim Exegetical Engagement with the Biblical Text / / Samuel Ross.

The Qur’an and the Bible have been called "intertwined scriptures" due to the Qur’an’s frequent invocation of biblical narratives and figures. But what is the history of Muslims’ exegetical engagement with the biblical text? Through a comprehensive survey of more than 170 Qur’an commentari...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2024]
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Year of Publication:2024
Language:English
Series:Islam – Thought, Culture, and Society , 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVI, 278 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Tables and Figures
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Big Picture: 1000 Years of Exegetical Engagement with the Biblical Text
  • 3 Contextualizing the Pre-Modern Dearth of Biblical Citation in Tafsīr
  • 4 A Major Pre-Modern Exception: Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar al-Biqāʿī
  • 5 Contextualizing the Nineteenth-Century Biblical Turn
  • 6 Typologies of the Biblical Turn
  • 7 The New Authority of the Bible in Modern Tafsīr
  • 8 The Impact of the Biblical Turn
  • 9 Conclusion
  • Appendix: The Corpus of Arabic-Language Qur’an Commentaries
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Index of Biblical Verses
  • Index of Qur’anic Verses