Muslim Qur’anic Interpretation Today - Media, Genealogies and Interpretive Communities - Johanna Pink
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Muslim Qur’anic Interpretation Today - Media, Genealogies and Interpretive Communities - Johanna Pink
Johanna Pink [+]
University of Freiburg
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Johanna Pink is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Freiburg. Among her publications are one monograph as well as numerous articles and handbook chapters on contemporary, modern and 18th century Qur'anic exegesis as well as classical Qur'anic hermeneutics. She is currently publishing a collective volume on tafsir and Islamic intellectual history (OUP) and a guest-edited issue of the Journal of Qur'anic Studies on the translation of the Qur'an. Other areas of interest include the history of Egypt and the status of non-Muslims in Muslim religious and legal discourses.
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This book, like most works on contemporary Muslim religious discourses, frequently mentions broader religious and ideological trends that correlate with widely divergent perspectives on hermeneutics and the meaning of the Qurʾān, ranging from modernism to Salafism. This chapter proposes a terminology and categorisation that is adapted to the context of contemporary Qurʾānic interpretation. Discussing the approaches of traditional ʿulamāʾ, modernists, Islamists, Salafis, and Postmodernists, it does not limit itself to outlining their ideas and beliefs, but also situates them in specific social spaces.