Title: Approaches to the history of the interpretation of the Qurʼān /
Authors: Rippin, Andrew,
Date: 1988
Publisher: Clarendon Press ;
Physical description: xi, 334 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC class: B
Contents: Origins and early development of the tafsīr tradition / Fred Leemhuis -- The value of the Ḥafṣ and Warsh transmissions for the textual history of the Qurʼān / Adrian Brockett -- Quranic hermeneutics : the views of al-Ṭabarī and Ibn Kathīr / Jane Dammen McAuliffe -- The function of ḥadīth as commentary on the Qurʼān, as seen in the six authoritative collections / R. Marston Speight -- Legends in tafsīr and ḥadīth literature : the creation of Ādam and related stories / M.J. Kister -- The exegetical genre nāsikh al-Qurʼān wa mansūkhuhu / David S. Powers-- The rhetorical interpretaion of the Qurʼān : iʻjāz and related topics / Issa J. Boullata -- Lexicographical texts and the Qurʼān / Andrew Rippin -- The speaking Qurʼān and the silent Qurʼān : a study of the principles and development of Imāmī Shīʻī tafsīr / Mahmoud Ayoub -- Ismāʻīlī taʼwīl of the Qurʼān / Ismail K. Poonawala -- Interpretation as revelation : the Qurʼān commentary of Sayyid ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, the Bāb (1819-1850) / B. Todd Lawson -- Quranic exegesis in the Malay world : in search of a profile / Anthony H. Johns -- Qurʼān recitation training in Indonesia : a survey of contexts and handbooks / Frederick M. Denny -- Abūʼl-Aʻlā Mawdūdī's Tafhīm al-Qurʼān / Charles J. Adams.
Notes: Rev. and enlarged versions of papers originally presented at a conference called The history of the interpretation of the Qurʼān which was held in April 1985 at the University of Calgary.