This unique book brings together, for the first time, traditional and new principles required in Qur'anic interpretation. It sets the challenge for present day scholars to take up the mantle of elucidating the Qur'an within our modern context and reinforces to the layman what a bewilderingly wondrous gift it is that Allah has placed in our midst.
Contents:
1. Principle One
The influence of the relation of the Qur'an and the various sciences on defining the tools and resources of the exegete
2. Principle Two
The levels of Qur'anic guidance and their influence on the exegete's understanding of the Qur'an's universal address
3. Principle Three
The Qur'an explains itself
4. Principle Four
The Prophet's Sunna is the second of the two Revelations, its source is the Qur'an and it is the explanation of its meanings
5. Principle Five
The exegete must acquaint himself with the Science of the Principles of Jurisprudence, because it contains important rules for understanding the text and analyzing it
6. Principle Six
The need of the exegete to keep up with the amplification in the meanings of verbal expressions that accompany the expansion of the limits of knowledge of a given civilization and the cumulative effects in its experiences
7. Principle Seven
The effects of grasping the various manners in which the Qur'an affects the soul on understanding and analyzing the text, and the necessity of learning that method
8. Principle Eight
The stories of the Prophets are expositions of the various cognitive styles governing humans throughout history
9. Principle Nine
The axes of the various surah of the Qur'an and their influence on understanding the text
10. Principle Ten
Fundamental principles of the Qur'an or independent inference: a practical method applied by the community over the centuries to derive benefit from the verses of the Qur'an
11. Principle Eleven
Divine existential laws governing human societies permeate the Book and form the subject of one of the essential sciences of the Qur'an
12. Principle Twelve
The Science of Qur'anic Purposes, one of the most important tools of the exegete
13. Principle Thirteen
Effect of the Science of Derivatives on understanding the text
About Author:
Sheikh Usama al-Sayed al-Azhari is an Azhari scholar, preacher, an academic and a Senior Fellow of Kalam Research & Media. He teaches Hadith, Logic, and Islamic Creed at the renowned Al-Azhar Mosque’s Riwaq al-Atrak in Cairo, Egypt. He also holds a teaching post in the Faculty of Usul al-Din and Da`wah at Al-Azhar University, Egypt.
About The Translator
Dr. Mostafa Badawi was born in Cairo in 1948. He graduated from Cairo University Medical School in 1971 and thereafter completed his postgraduate training in the United Kingdom in 1985. He has been practicing as a consultant psychiatrist since then. Dr. al-Badawi has authored several books in English, including Man and the Universe: An Islamic Perspective, The Prophetic Invocations, and Sufi Sage of Arabia: Biography of Imam al-Haddad.
He is a distinguished authority on the history and teachings of the Ba 'Alawi Sayyids. He studied under many shaykhs, foremost among whom is the late Habib Ahmad Mashur al-Haddad.
Dr. Badawi is one of the leading contemporary translators of Islamic books from Arabic to English and has authored several books in Arabic. In addition, he has translated from the original Arabic into English several of Imam Abdallah ibn Alawi al-Haddad's works, including The Book of Assistance, The Lives of Man, Gifts for the Seeker, Wisdom and Knowledge, Good Manners, and Mutual Reminding. He also translated into English Habib Ahmad al-Haddad's Key to the Garden as well as Shaykh Abd al-Khaliq ash-Shabrawi's Degrees of the Soul.
