Ethics in the Qurʾān and the Tafsīr Tradition: From the Polynoia of Scripture to the Homonoia of Exegesis: 23 (Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān)

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This book is about the articulation of ethics in the Qurʾān and the tafsīr tradition. Based on an examination of several apparently problematic Qurʾānic narrative pericopes and how the exegetes grappled with them, the book demonstrates that the moral world of the Qurʾān is polyvalent and non-linear, owing, above all, to its intrinsic ethical antinomies and textual ambiguities. That is, the book contends that paradox and uncertainty are both constituents of the Qurʾān’s ethical architectonics, and that through these constituents the Qurʾān charts a system of ethics that seeks to tread in the midst of a non-ideal world rife with uncertainty.
The book also argues that the tafsīr tradition tends to erode the hermeneutical openness of the Qurʾān and, thereby, limits the Qurʾān’s ethical potential. The book, thus, advances our understanding of Qurʾānic ethics and contributes to the field of tafsīr studies and to the scholarship on Qurʾānic hermeneutics.
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brill
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 27 June 2024
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 230 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9004696466
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9004696464
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 499 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.5 x 2.1 x 23.5 cm
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