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Title SCIENTIFIC EXEGESIS REAPPRAISED: A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE AL-JAW@HIR F@ TAFS@R AL-QUR'@N AL-KAR@M
Full text http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/9390/1/Chapter_1-6_%26_Bibliography_(submission)__26_Nov_2013.pdf; http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/9390/2/Abstract%2C_dedication%2C_acknowledgement%2C_declaration%2C_cright%2C_transliteration%2C_content.pdf; http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/9390/
Date 2013
Author(s) MOHD-NOOR, AHMAD,YUNUS
Abstract This research aims to explore and examine the discipline of 'scientific exegeses' by providing a critical study of one of the first major works in that field, the al-Jawahir fa Tafsar al-Qur'an al-Karam of Tanṭawa Jawhara (1862-1940) a contemporary prominent Muslim theologian and exegete of Egypt. Since the aim of this thesis is critically examine and explore the al-Jawahir fa Tafsar al-Qur'an al-Karam as a founding document of scientific exegesis in contemporary Muslims world, historical development of scientific exegesis from the traditionalists up to contemporary scholars' arguments, rational and textual, are examined to provide context for the research. Comparative discursive analysis method is used in order to differentiate between the traditionalists and modern time with regard to their methodology in dealing with the scientific exegesis. Tanṭawa Jawhara is chosen due to his seminal contributions in pioneering some important intellectuals in the study of scientific exegesis. Besides providing a biographical sketch of Tanṭawa Jawhara, this research examines some of the significant matters and assesses the methodology of Tanṭawa in dealing with his magnum opus incorporated into discussions of the al-Jawahir in the eyes of other prominent scholars. This research concludes that classifying the al-Jawahir as an encyclopedic scientific exegesis is fairly justified and that it significantly contributed to the rich of Islamic scientific exegesis in contemporary Muslims world. Tanṭawa and the al-Jawahir's main contribution, as suggested by this study, is in the integration of two branches of knowledge; the Qur'an and science. In this, the al-Jawahir represents a trend parallel to a new school of thought, the pioneers of which were philosophers who attempted to reconcile philosophy and religion.
Subject(s) SCIENTIFIC; EXEGESIS; AL-JAW@HIR F@ TAFS@R AL-QUR'@N AL-KAR@M
Type of publication Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
Format application/pdf; application/pdf
Identifier oai:etheses.dur.ac.uk:9390; MOHD-NOOR, AHMAD,YUNUS (2013) SCIENTIFIC EXEGESIS REAPPRAISED: A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE AL-JAW@HIR F@ TAFS@R AL-QUR'@N AL-KAR@M. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
Repository Durham - Durham University
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