Approaches to the history of the interpretation of the Qur'ān
By: edited by Andrew Rippin
Series: Gorgias Islamic studies; Gorgias Islamic studies -- 1.
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Piscataway, New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781607240464
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Qurʼan; Congresses; History
Notes: Originally published by Oxford University Press, 1988.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Origins and early development of the tafsīr tradition  -- Fred Leemhuis; title: The value of the Ḥafṣ and Warsh transmissions for the textual history of the Qurʼān  -- Adrian Brockett; title: Quranic hermeneutics : the views of al-Ṭabarī and Ibn Kathīr  -- Jane Dammen McAuliffe; title: The function of ḥadīth as commentary on the Qurʼān, as seen in the six authoritative collections  -- R. Marston Speight; title: Legends in tafsīr and ḥadīth literature : the creation of Ādam and related stories  -- M.J. Kister; title: The exegetical genre nāsikh al-Qurʼān wa mansūkhuhu  -- David S. Powers; title: The rhetorical interpretaion of the Qurʼān : iʻjāz and related topics  -- Issa J. Boullata; title: Lexicographical texts and the Qurʼān  -- Andrew Rippin; title: The speaking Qurʼān and the silent Qurʼān : a study of the principles and development of Imāmī Shīʻī tafsīr  -- Mahmoud Ayoub; title: Ismāʻīlī taʼwīl of the Qurʼān  -- Ismail K. Poonawala; title: Interpretation as revelation : the Qurʼān commentary of Sayyid ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, the Bāb (1819-1850)  -- B. Todd Lawson; title: Quranic exegesis in the Malay world : in search of a profile  -- Anthony H. Johns; title: Qurʼān recitation training in Indonesia : a survey of contexts and handbooks  -- Frederick M. Denny; title: Abūʼl-Aʻlā Mawdūdī's Tafhīm al-Qurʼān -- Charles J. Adams.