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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Qur'anic"”.
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The Literary Role of Jews in Qur'anic Exegesis
… the representation of Jews in the Tafsīrs (Qur’anic exegeses) of three medieval Sunnī scholars, Muqātil (d. 767 CE), al-Ṭabarī (d. 923 CE) and Ibn Kathīr (d. 1373 CE). The main argument is that the three exegetes create boundaries between Muslims and Jews by presenting Jews as a literary …
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Aesthetics of the Qur'anic epigraphy on the Taj Mahal
This thesis examines the Qur'anic epigraphic program of the Taj Mahal. Following the 1989 Begley & Desai book Taj Mahal: on Illustrated Tomb, the flourish of scholarship that would expectedly follow a complete epigraphical catalog never arrived. Despite being well-known and universally cherished as …
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Qur'anic narrative and Isra'iliyyat in Western scholarship and in classical exegesis
… is twofold. On the one hand it analyses how the Qur'an presents stories, on the other hand it examines the classical Muslim commentators' response to the Qur'anic narration. In part one we remark that the theory that the Qur'an borrowed extensively from the Bible has clouded the vision of many …
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'May God Cure You': Contemporary Egyptian Therapeutic Landscapes Between Qur'anic Healing And Psychiatry
… the practice of a therapeutic technique known as Qur'anic healing (<em>al-'ilāj bi-l-qur'ān</em>). In contemporary Egypt, as throughout the Middle East, the past decades have witnessed the increased visibility and popularity of this revivalist, Salafi-based therapy of jinn exorcism and …
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Undertaking hifth at a Qur'anic school for girls in Cape Town: a case study
… that constitute hifth (the memorisation of the Qur'an) as it is practised at a Qur'anic school in Cape Town. The research aims to identify the language and literacy practices of hifth at this school, as well as investigate how selected girls orient themselves to these practices. The fieldwork …
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An informational approach to document and intelligent retrieval systems : problems and alternatives for representing subjects in the Qur'anic text
… to Islamic Studies. However, the classical Qur'anic exegeses and Hadith collections represent a particular problem to Information Scientists: indexing the Qur'anic exegeses and Hadith collections requires an initial operational list of subject headings of both the Qur'anic and Hadith texts. …
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Naskh al-Qur'an: A Theological and Juridical Reconsideration of the Theory of Abrogation and Its Impact on Qur'anic Exegesis
The Qur'an has always been a medium through and upon which Islam and the Muslim faith are structured and built. It mediates the relationship between Muslims and God. Despite its alleged divine origin, the Qur'an as a scriptural and textual reality remains to be understood by Muslims. Many theories …
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Terrorism from a Qur'anic perspective : a study of selected classical and modern exegeses and thier interpretation in the modern context
… thesis is an attempt to study terrorism from a Qur’anic perspective with special reference to selected classical and modern exegeses and how they are understood by modern scholars. The study is divided into an introduction, five main chapters and a conclusion. In the introduction, a brief …
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The concept of Khilafah according to selected Sunni and Shi I Quranic Commentaries
The purpose of this research is to examine the Qur'anic conception of khiläfah from selected Sunni and ShiCI points of view, in both the classical and modern periods. The term khiläfah, widely used by the Sunnis, is inseparable from imämah, the term which the ShiCis prefer. The concept arose very …
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God is the Best Guardian: Islamic Talismanic Shirts from the Gunpowder Empires
Islamic talismanic shirts are fragile and highly ornamented textiles that feature Qur'anic text, magic squares, and other complex design elements common to talismanic objects of smaller, more portable form. The way in which these garments invoke the human body and thus differ from other talismans …
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Battered women in Muslim communities in the Western Cape : religious constructions of gender, marriage, sexuality and violence
… hermeneutic to medieval and contemporary Qur'anic exegetical literature. The examination of medieval period focused on the exegesis of Abu Jafar Muhumammad b. Jarir al-Tabari (839-922), Abu al-Qasim Mahmud b. Umar Zamakshari (1075-1144), Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1149- 1210). The study of …
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Public preaching by Muslims and Pentecostals in Mumias, Western Kenya and its influence on interfaith relations.
… that Christians err on the basis of Biblical and Qur'anic texts. Pentecostal Christian preachers, on the other hand, extend their religious spaces into the public sphere and invite Kenyans in general, and mainline Christians in particular, to recommit themselves to Jesus. The preaching of both …
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The Qur'an after Babel: Translating and Printing the Qur'an in Late Ottoman and Modern Turkey
… examines the translation and printing of the Qur'an in the late Ottoman Empire and the early years of the Republic of Turkey (1820-1938). As most Islamic scholars deem the Qur'an inimitable divine speech, the idea of translating the Qur'an has been surrounded with concern since the first …
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A thematic comparative review of some English translations of the Qur'an
… of some of the English translations of the Qur'an, including the works of Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Muhammad Asad, Taqiuddin Hilali and Muhsin Khan, and Zafarlshaq Ansari/Sayyid Mawdudi. In this study, a new and unique approach is used to review and compare these translations along with their …
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The Orientalism of Edgar Allan Poe: The Allure of the Middle East in Al-Aaraaf
… centers on the elements of Oriental exoticism, Qur'anic imagery, Middle Eastern geography, ancient cities, local traditions, and intertextual relationships. The body of the thesis is mainly made up of three parts. The first part gives a brief survey of the definition of Orientalism and the role …
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A study and edition of Imām Abd al-Azīz b. Alī b. al-Izz al-Baghdādī al-Bakrī al-Ḥanbalī al-Maqdisī : Junnat al-Ṣābirīn al-Abrār Wa Jannat al-Mutawakkilīn al-Akhyār
… their sources, explain vague utterances, conform Qur'anic texts to Uthmani scripture, define idioms, verify jurisprudence issues, correct grammatical mistakes, and describe eminent persons and places. The revision is concluded with general technical indexes.
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SUFIMINISM: THE SEXUAL, THE SPIRITUAL, THE SELF
… as Sufi qawwali (spiritual songs), Sufi poetry, Qur'anic exegeses, hagiographical texts, and oral storytelling to explore pivotal concepts in sexuality studies: heteronormativity, consent, and the divide between licit and illicit sex. In addition to textual analysis, I present interludes of …
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The development of apostasy and punishment law in Islam 11 AH/632 AD-157 AH/774 AD|
… and message of early Islam as presented in the Qur'an stands in glaring contrast to this doctrine. The political events of the late Umayyad and early Abbasid periods seem to have provided the fertile soil for the invention of those traditions on which later jurists elaborated a complex set of …
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The Reception of the Qur'an in Indonesia: a case study of the place of the Qur'an in a non Arabic speaking community
This Dissertation is on the reception of the Qur'an as it elaborates the place of the Qur'an in a non-Arabic speaking community in Indonesia. The Qur'an is the scripture and the primary source of Muslim teachings, a universal text in terms of time and place. The Qur'an was revealed during the life …
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