عنوان

Muqatil ibn Sulayman: A neglected figure in the early history of Qur'ānic commentary

شماره

TL48145

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Muqatil ibn Sulayman: A neglected figure in the early history of Qur'ānic commentary

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Achmad Tohe

نام ساير پديدآوران

Ali, Kecia; Purohit, Teena

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Boston University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2015

نام خاص و کميت اثر

405

متن يادداشت

Committee members: Lobel, Diana; Pregill, Michael E.; Zank, Michael

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-60285-2

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

نظم درجات

Religious and Theological Studies GRS

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Boston University

امتياز متن

2015

متن يادداشت

This study investigates Muqātil ibn Sulaymān's (d. 150/767) hermeneutics in his three extant Qur'an commentaries: al-Tafsīr al-Kabīr, Tafsīr al-Khams Mi'at Āyah min al-Qur'ān, and al-Wujūh wa al-Naā'ir fī al-Qur'ān al-Aīm. It explains Muqātil's understanding of the Qur'an, his exegetical approaches, and the theological concerns undergirding his endeavors. Despite his early importance, Muqātil is an understudied figure because of stigma attached to his views and methods. Later Muslim tradition accused Muqātil of anthropomorphism, inattention to transmission chains, fabrication of adīth (prophetic traditions), and overreliance on biblical narratives, thus rendering his work theologically and methodologically suspect. Two of these accusations are unfounded, and two are only partially correct but misleading as well as anachronistic. Existing modern scholarship on Muqātil and his commentaries has either focused on these accusations or on uncovering his views on specific topics. None has addressed Muqātil's hermeneutics, the focus of this study. Substantively, Muqātil maintains that the Qur'an consists of divine commands, prohibitions, promises, threats, and narratives of the past. Linguistically, the Qur'an is a complex structure containing utterances of different kinds, which he presents in a series of binaries: general-particular, clear-vague, equivocal-unequivocal, explicit-implicit, and so forth. Consequently, a proper understanding of the Qur'an necessitates interpretation. Muqātil uses three major exegetical methods, namely paraphrasing, crossreferencing, and narrative, and three techniques, namely fragmentation, specification, and completion. Muqātil's commentaries persistently focus on theological concerns revolving around the propagation of belief (īmān), in opposition to disbelief (kufr), with regard to the oneness of God (tawīd) and the validity of Muhammad's prophethood (tadīq). He uses theological criteria to evaluate non-Muslim communities as well as Muslims who had shown distrust of or rebellious acts against the Prophet Muhammad. Though theologically uncompromising, Muqātil is legally a pragmatist with regard to interreligious coexistence, especially in his conception of mukamāt al-Qur'ān as the perennially unchanging elements of revelation, which serves as the 'Islamic Decalogue,' laying a common ground for interreligious relations. Furthermore, Muqātil is ethically pacifist in advancing his uncompromising theology, including in propagating tawīd and tadīq and in understanding jihad not merely as an armed fight but also as civilized acts undertaken for God's cause.

موضوع مستند نشده

Religion; Religious history; Islamic Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Heresy;Hermeneutics;Muqatil ibn Sulayman;Qur'anic;interreligious relations

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Semiari, Fatemeh

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ali, Kecia; Purohit, Teena

تقسيم فرعي

Religious and Theological Studies GRS

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Boston University

شماره بازیابی

1661321122; 3684858

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y