Commentaries on Selected Chapters of the Qu'ran.
Theological Approaches to Qur'anic Exegesis (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East)
by Hussein Abdul-Raof
This book provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the various schools of Qur'anic exegesis, from the earliest periods through to the present day. Employing a comparative-contrastive methodology, the author examines traditional and rational schools of thought – such as the Mu’tazili, Shi’i, Ibadi, Sufi, metaphysical, modern, and scientific approaches to the interpretation of the Qur’an – to give a detailed analysis of the similarities and differences in their theological views. The s...
Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an as Literature and Culture (Biblical Interpretation, #98)
by Roberta Sabbath
Sacred Tropes interweaves Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an essays which collectively and individually enlist literary approaches including environmental, cultural studies, gender, psychoanalytic, ideological, economic, historicism, law, and rhetorical criticisms. Sacred Tropes represents a pioneering, comparatist approach to Abrahamic studies.
"The Way of the Prophet" is a translation of a selection of 393 traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and includes a commentary to elucidate their meanings. This comprehensive selection covers faith, worship, morality and character, ethics, society, law and politics in Islam. It was originally complied in the 1950s by Sheikh 'Abd al-Ghaffar Hasan of Delhi at the request of Sayyid Abu'l A 'la Mawdudi and is mainly based on the Miskat al-Masabih of al-Khatib al-Tabrizi and the Adab al-Mufrad of Imam...
Tafsir Al-Qurtubi Vol. 2: Juz' 2 (Tafsir Al-Qurtubi)
by Abu 'abdullah Al-Qurtubi
Ayahs for Children
by Members Imam W Deen Mohammed Community and A L Bilal Muhammad
Three Translations of the Koran (Al-Qur'an) Side-By-Side
by Hafiz Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall, and Muhammad Habib Shakir
An Anthropology of the Qur'an (Routledge Studies in Religion)
by Ahmed Achrati
This book presents an anthropological study of the Qur'an, offering an unprecedented challenge to some of the epistemological and metaphysical assumptions of the tawhidic discourses. Combining primary textual materials and anthropological analysis, this book examines transcendence as a core principle of the Qur'an, uniquely signified in the divine name al-Quddus (the Holy). It shows how the tawhidic representations of Allah constitute an inversion of this attribute; examines how this inversion h...
The Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association (JIQSA) is a peer reviewed annual journal published on behalf of the International Qur'anic Studies Association, a nonprofit learned society for scholars of the Qur'an. JIQSA welcomes article submissions that explore the Qur'an's origins in the religious, cultural, social, and political contexts of Late Antiquity; its connections to various literary precursors, especially the scriptural and parascriptural traditions of older religious...