Tafsīr and Ta'wīl

Islamic hermeneutics and modes of exegesis-eisegesis

IN PROGRESS 2007-8

Stephen Lambden (Ohio University)

Major and minor Abrahamic religions of the book, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam, after the death of their founder prophet figures and their immediate successors had at some stage to codify and sanctify their respective sacred scriptures and offer guidance as to the best mode or modes of their authoritative interpretation. While some favored a straightforward ("literal") interpretation others gave weight to a such non-literal modes of interpretation as allegory and typology, etc.

 

al-Ghazālī  = Abū Ḥāmid Muhammad b. Muhammad al-Ţusî,  al-Ghazālī ( d. 555 /1111).

Fayṣal al-Tafriqa bayna al-Islam wa'l-Zandaqa ("The Decisive Criterion for Disti Islam from Masked Infedility").

Jackson, Sherman A. (trans.)

  • On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's Fayṣal al-Tafriqa bayna al-Islam wa'l-Zandaqa. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002_07. (156pp.).

 

 

 


Bo¨wering, Gerhard.

  • 1979 The Classical Vision of Existence in Islam: the Qur’ānic Hermeneutics of the Sūfī Sahl al-Tustarī (d. 283/896) (Berlin: de Gruyter).

  • 1989 Sufi hermeneutics in medieval Islam, Revue des Etudes Islamiques, 57, pp. 255–270.

  • 1991 The Qur’ān commentary of al-Sulamī, in: W. B. Hallaq & D. P. Little (Eds) Islamic Studies Presented to Charles J. Adams (Leiden: Brill), pp. 41–56.

  • 1996a The major sources for Sulamī’s minor Qur’ān commentary, Oriens, 35, pp. 41–56.

  • 1996b  From the Word of God to the Vision of God: Muhammad’s heavenly journey in classical Sūfī Qur’ān commentary, in: M. A. Amir-Moezzi (Ed.) Le Voyage Initiatique en terre d’Islam: Ascensions ce´lestes et itine´raires spirituels (Louvain: Peeters), pp. 205–221.

  • 2001 The light verse: Qur’ānic text and Sūfī interpretation, Oriens, 36, pp. 113–144.

  • 2003 The scriptural ‘senses’ in medieval Sūfī Qur’ān exegesis, in: J. D. McAuliffe, B. D. Walfish & F.W. Goering (Eds) With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 346–365.

 

al-Khaldi,  Salah

  • al-Tafsir wa al-Ta wil fi al-Qur an Jordan: XXXX,  1996

Freidenreich, David M,

· `The Use of Islamic Sources in Saadiah Gaon’s Tafsīr of the Torah’ in JQR CXIII (2003), pp. 353-395.*

Gilliot. Claude.

  • Exegese, langue et théologie en Islam: 'exégèse coranique de Tabari. Paris:  Librarie Philosophique, J. Vrin, 1990. (320pp.).*
     

  • Exegesis of the Qur'an: Classical and Medieval,  E-Q 1: 99-124.

Habil, A.

  • 1987 Traditional esoteric commentaries on the Qur’an, in: S. H. Nasr (Ed.) Islamic Spirituality: Foundations (New York: Crossroad), pp. 24–47.

Poonawala, I.

  • Ta'wil. In EI2 Vol. 10:390-392 (Leiden, Brill, 1954>)
     

Wansbrough, John.

  • Quranic Studies: Sources and Methods of Scriptural Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.*

  • The Sectarian Milieu: Content and Composition of Islamic Sa/ration History. London Oriental Series 34. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.*
     

 Weilandt, Rotraud.

  • Exegesis of the Qur'an: Modern and Contemporary E-Q 1:124-142.