God's word, spoken or otherwise : : Sayyid Ahmad Khan's (1817-1898) Muslim exegesis of the Bible / / Charles M. Ramsey.
Set in British India soon after the Uprising of 1857, God's Word, Spoken and Otherwise explores the controversial and ingenious ideas of one of South Asia's most influential public thinkers, Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898). Bringing to light previously unpublished material from his exege...
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| Superior document: | The History of Christian-Muslim Relations ; 45 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The History of Christian-Muslim Relations ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Notes on Translation and Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 1 Approaching the Texts
- 2 Approaching the Context
- 3 Studies on Sayyid Ahmad Khan
- 4 Outline of the Chapters
- 2 The Tabyīn in Context
- 1 The Political Setting
- 2 The Intellectual Environment
- 3 Revelation Recorded
- 4 The British Intellectual Environment
- 5 Sayyid Ahmad's Life and Works
- 6 Conclusion
- 3 On the Bible
- 1 What Is the Significance of the Title Tabyīn al-kalām?
- 2 How Did Sayyid Ahmad Present His Commentaries on the Bible?
- 3 Rationale for a Muslim Reading of the Bible
- 4 Taḥrīf: The Greatest Obstacle to the Tabyīn Project
- 5 Nāsikh wa-mansūkh
- 6 Tabyīn Part 2
- 7 To Reconcile Scripture and Science
- 8 The Garden: What Did Transpire?
- 9 Conclusion to Genesis
- 10 Tabyīn Part 3
- 11 The Person of Jesus Christ
- 12 The Words and the Text
- 13 The Counsels of Jesus
- 14 Tafsīr al-Qurʾān
- 15 Jesus's Miraculous Birth
- 16 Jesus Speaks in Infancy
- 17 Jesus Raises the Dead
- 18 Jesus's Heavenly Ascension
- 19 Conclusion
- 4 Prophecy: Rehearsed and Unrehearsed
- 1 To Know What One Knows
- 2 Experience as the Basis of Knowledge
- 3 Experiment as the Way to Knowledge
- 4 Knowledge for Salvation
- 5 The Prophetic Experience
- 6 Differentiating the Rehearsed and the Unrehearsed
- 7 The Inimitable Qurʾan
- 8 The Qurʾan as Text
- 9 Revelation Defined
- 10 Sources for the Adoption of the Taxonomy
- 11 Construction Applied to the Bible
- 12 Revelation Recorded
- 13 Revelation in the Bible
- 14 The New Testament Authors
- 15 Writings Other Than Gospels in the New Testament
- 16 Conclusion
- 5 The Coherence of Revelation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Continuity and Originality
- 3 Scripturalist falsafa
- 4 Conclusion
- 6 Conclusion
- 1 How Did Sayyid Ahmad Conceptualize Prophetic Revelation in the Bible?
- 2 What Did Sayyid Ahmad Understand Himself to Be Doing in Tabyīn?
- References
- Index.