{"id":12663,"date":"2014-08-04T08:53:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T06:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/04\/he-qur-an-modern-muslim-interpretations-by-massimo-campanini\/"},"modified":"2014-08-04T08:53:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T06:53:15","slug":"he-qur-an-modern-muslim-interpretations-by-massimo-campanini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/he-qur-an-modern-muslim-interpretations-by-massimo-campanini\/","title":{"rendered":"The Qur&#8217;an; Modern Muslim Interpretations by Massimo Campanini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2014-08-04<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/BookReviewTheQuranModernMuslimInterpretationsMon04.08.2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a title=\"The Quran Modern Muslim Interpretations\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/BookReviewTheQuranModernMuslimInterpretationsMon04.08.2014\/Book_review_The_Quran_Modern_Muslim_Interpretations-mon-04.08.2014.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>DOWNLOAD<\/b><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reviewed by:<\/strong> Ml. Ashraf Dockrat on Radio Islam \u2013 05 August 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>No of pages:<\/strong> (160)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Price:<\/strong> (R330.00)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>EBook:<\/strong> (None)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Genre:<\/strong> Commentary on approaches to the Holy Quran\/Translations<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This book examines the way the Qur\u2019an has been interpreted in the twenty and 21st centuries. Modern Qur\u2019anic commentators may be grouped into a few categories. The author groups, who he identifies as prominent Qur\u2019anic scholars, into one of these categories and then drawing on their works identifies the main features of the approach adopted by the exegete.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His introduction is titled \u201cThe Qur\u2019an and Praxis\u201d. Here he tries to identify some of the factors which have influenced modern Qur\u2019anic interpretation such as secularism and the political situation in Muslim countries. The first chapter is devoted to Salafi commentary, traditionalist commentary and \u201cScientific\u201d commentary. Salafi scholars are those who did not heed the importance of taqlid such as Rashid Rida and Muhammad Abdu. He identifies the Shi\u2019i Allama Sayyid Muhammad Hussain Tabataba\u2019i. and the Sunni Tunisian Muhammad Tahir Ibn Ashur as representative of traditionalist commentary. Shaykh Mahmud Shaltut can also be regarded as a traditionalist and so can Muhammad al-Ghazali although their methods differ considerably. \u201cScientific\u201d commentary is controversial with many who reject any kind of connection between science and Qur\u2019an.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Six other approaches to the Qur\u2019an may be identified: those who regard the Qur\u2019an as literature; scholars who question the classical approach to the historicity of the Qur\u2019an; those who have embarked on a thematic study of the Qur\u2019an; scholars who emphasized the concept of nazm; \u201cMuslim\u201d liberation theologians and radical exegetes. In an appendix this book looks briefly at trends in Indonesia and Turkey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The author, Massimo Campanini is Professor of History of the Arab Countries at the Oriental University in Naples.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This book is important and essential reading for those interested in how Muslims have understood the Qur\u2019an in the contemporary period and how reliable or not the broad range of interpretations in the genre of \u201cTafsir\u201d (Qur\u2019an exegesis) are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Published by:<\/strong> Routledge (2010)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Available from:<\/strong> Most bookstores \/ Amazon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2014-08-04 DOWNLOAD \u00a0 Reviewed by: Ml. Ashraf Dockrat on Radio Islam \u2013 05 August 2014 No of pages: (160) Price: (R330.00) EBook: (None) Genre: Commentary on approaches to the Holy Quran\/Translations Synopsis: This book examines the way the Qur\u2019an has been interpreted in the twenty and 21st centuries. 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