Normative Readings of the Qur'an: From the Premodern Middle East to the Modern West
This article explores the variety of normative claims that both Muslims and non-Muslims have held about the Qur'an by asking two key questions: (1) What separates normative and non-normative approaches to scholarship? (2) What separates study of a tradition from contribution to that tradition?...
| Publié dans: | Journal of the American Academy of Religion |
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| Autres titres: | Roundtable on normativity in islamic studies |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Oxford University Press
[2016]
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| Dans: |
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Koran
/ Normativité
/ Histoire
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| RelBib Classification: | BJ Islam |
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| Résumé: | This article explores the variety of normative claims that both Muslims and non-Muslims have held about the Qur'an by asking two key questions: (1) What separates normative and non-normative approaches to scholarship? (2) What separates study of a tradition from contribution to that tradition? By surveying a multiplicity of scholars—spanning two millennia and disparate geographical regions—this article argues that objectivity is scarcely if ever possible in Qur'anic studies scholarship and that scholars of the Qur'an, Muslim or not, almost always have a normative agenda, whether implicit or explicit. Because the epistemological boundaries between insiders and outsiders are often fluid, recognizing the similarities between so-called insider and outsider approaches to Qur'anic exegesis across the centuries contributes to debates about normative scholarship by helping us to reimagine boundaries of identity, authority, and the struggle for normativity in religious studies scholarship. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfv103 |