The Qurn in the MalayIndonesian World
The largely Arabo-centric approach to the academic study of tafsr has resulted in a lack of literature exploring the diversity of Quranic interpretation in other areas of the Muslim-majority world.
The essays in The Qurn in the MalayIndonesian World resolve this, aiming to expand our knowledge of tafsr and its history in the MalayIndonesian world. Highlighting the scope of Quranic interpretation in the Malay world in its various vernaculars, it also contextualizes this work to reveal its place as part of the wider Islamic world, especially through its connections to the Arab world, and demonstrates the strength of these connections. The volume is divided into three parts written primarily by scholars from Malaysia and Indonesia. Beginning with a historical overview, it then moves into chapters with a more specifically regional focus to conclude with a thematic approach by looking at topics of some controversy in the broader world.
Presenting new examinations of an under-researched topic, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Islamic studies and Southeast Asian studies.
Majid Daneshgar is Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research focuses on Islam in the MalayIndonesian World, and Islam and Science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Peter G. Riddell is Vice Principal (Academic) at the Melbourne School of Theology and Professorial Research Associate in History at SOAS, the University of London. He has published widely on the study of Southeast Asia, Islam and ChristianMuslim Relations.
Andrew Rippin is Professor Emeritus of Islamic history at the University of Victoria, Canada and Senior Research Fellow of Quranic studies at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.
Routledge Studies in the Quran
Former editor: Andrew Rippin
University of Victoria, Canada
Series editor: Walid Saleh
University of Toronto, Canada
In its examination of critical issues in the scholarly study of the Quran and its commentaries, this series targets the disciplines of archaeology, history, textual history, anthropology, theology and literary criticism. The contemporary relevance of the Quran in the Muslim world, its role in politics and in legal debates are also dealt with, as are debates surrounding Quranic studies in the Muslim world.
Logic, Rhetoric and Legal Reasoning in the Qurn
Gods arguments
Rosalind Ward Gwynne
Textual Relations in the Qurn
Relevance, coherence and structure
Salwa M. El-Awa
Sf Commentaries on the Qurn in Classical Islam
Kristin Zahra Sands
The Quran in its Historical Context
Gabriel Said Reynolds
Interpreting al- Thalabis Tales of the Prophets
Temptation, Responsibility and Loss
Marianna Klar
The Quran and its Biblical Subtext
Gabriel Said Reynolds
Quranic Hermeneutics
Al-Tabrisi and the Craft of Commentary
Bruce Fudge
New Perspectives on the Quran
The Quran in its Historical Context 2
Edited by Gabriel Said Reynolds
The Quran and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions
Emran Iqbal El-Badawi
Mary in the Quran
A Literary Reading
Hosn Abboud
Shaping a Quranic Worldview
Scriptural Hermeneutics and the Rhetoric of Moral Reform in the Caliphate of al-Mamn
Vanessa De Gifis
Qurnic Studies Today
Edited by Angelika Neuwirth and Michael A. Sells
The Qurn in the MalayIndonesian World
Context and Interpretation
Edited by Majid Daneshgar, Peter G. Riddell and Andrew Rippin
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Names: Daneshgar, Majid, editor. | Riddell, Peter G., editor | Rippin,
Andrew, 1950, editor.
Title: The Quran in the Malay-Indonesian world : context and
interpretation / edited by Majid Daneshgar, Peter G. Riddell and
Andrew Rippin.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Routledge studies
in the Quran | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015047385 | ISBN 9781138182578
Subjects: LCSH: QuranCriticism, interpretation, etc.Southeast Asia. |
QuranCriticism, interpretation, etc.Malaysia. | QuranCriticism,
interpretation, etc.Indonesia.
Classification: LCC BP130.78.A785 Q87 2016 | DDC
297.1/22609595dc23
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Mustaffa Abdullah is Associate Professor at the Department of al-Quran and al-Hadith, Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has published several articles and books pertaining to Quranic exegesis and studies in the MalayIndonesian world, as well as the Middle East. His primary works are The Heritage of Quranic Exegesis in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, 2009), and Rashid Rida and its Influence in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, 2009).
Majid Daneshgar teaches Islamic Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He completed his Ph.D. from the University of Malaya (UM) where he also worked as a senior lecturer/assistant professor of religion. His main research interests focus on Islam in the MalayIndonesian World, and Islam and Science in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. His current projects are dealing with social aspects of Egyptian Quranic exegetes of the nineteenth century, and how/why they endeavoured to find compatibility between ilm and Quranic verses, as well as Quranic Malay manuscripts in Jawi compiled in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that presented astrological, ethical, metaphorical and supernatural elements.
