Studying the Qur’an in the Muslim Academy 1st Editon

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• ISBN-10: 019006756X
• ISBN-13: 9780190067564
• Author: Majid Daneshgar

Studying the Qur’an in the Muslim Academy examines what it is like to study and teach the Qur’an at academic institutions in the Muslim world, and how politics affect scholarly interpretations of the text. Guided by the author’s own journey as a student, university lecturer, and researcher in Iran, Malaysia, and New Zealand, this book provides vivid accounts of the complex academic politics he encountered. Majid Daneshgar describes the selective translation and editing of Edward Said’s classic work Orientalism into various Islamic languages, and the way Said’s work is weaponized to question the credibility of contemporary Western-produced scholarship in Islamic studies. Daneshgar also examines networks of journals, research centers, and universities in both Sunni and Shia contexts, and looks at examples of Quranic interpretation there. Ultimately, he offers a constructive program for enriching Islamic studies by fusing the best of Western theories with the best philological practices developed in Muslim academic contexts, aimed at encouraging respectful but critical engagement with the Qur’an.

Table contents:

I. A Taboo-Breaking Project
II. Study Organization
1. “Islamic Apologetics” and Islamic Studies
I. On “Islamic Apologetics”
II. Western Islamic Studies
III. Modern Trends in Qurʾanic Studies
IV. Studying Islam outside Its Core Lands

2. The Qurʾān in the Muslim Academy: What Should Be Censored?
I. Muslims’ Views of Western Islamic Studies
II. Western Works in the Muslim Academy: Rippin’s Qurʾanic Studies
III. Studying the Qurʾān in Muslim Universities and Seminaries
IV. Reading the Qurʾān with Other Materials
V. Self-Sufficiency in Academic Production
VI. Muslims’ Reading of Muhammad’s Adopted Son, Zayd

3. The Sectarian Study of Islam: A Culture of Isolation and the Isolation of Cultures
I. From the Islamization of Biblical Literature to the Sectarianizing of the Muslim Academy
II. The Forgotten East
III. Reception and Marginalization of Minorities
IV. Forgetting the Language and Culture of Everywhere/Always

4. Hatred of Inferiority and Confrontation with the West: Forgetting Some, Remembering Others
I. Forgetting Western Scholars of the Qurʾān: Origins
II. E. W. Said’s Orientalism
III. Muslim Study of the Qurʾān in Light of Orientalism
IV. Misunderstanding of Europeans in Orientalism
V. Remembering Scientists

5. Final Remarks
I. Conclusions
II. Islamic Apologetics Everywhere

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