Major Themes of the Qur’an
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About The Book
Major Themes of the Qur’an is Fazlur Rahman’s introduction to one of the richest texts in the history of religious thought. In this classic work, Rahman unravels the Qur’an’s complexities on themes such as God, society, revelation, and prophecy with the deep attachment of a Muslim educated in Islamic schools and the clarity of a scholar who taught for decades in the West.
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Ebrahim Moosa
Introduction
Chapter One
God
Chapter Two
Man as Individual
Chapter Three
Man in Society
Chapter Four
Nature
Chapter Five
Prophethood and Revelation
Chapter Six
Eschatology
Chapter Seven
Satan and Evil
Chapter Eight
Emergence of the Muslim Community
Appendix I
The Religious Situation of the Muslim Community in Mecca
Appendix II
The People of the Book and Diversity of Religions
Index
About the Contributor(s)
About the author
Fazlur Rahman: Fazlur Rahman Malik (1919–1988) was a Pakistani-American scholar whose work reshaped modern study of the Qurʾan and Islamic intellectual history. Born on September 21, 1919, in the Hazara region of British India, he studied Arabic at Punjab University and completed a doctorate at Oxford with a dissertation on the philosophy of Ibn Sina (Avicenna). He taught Persian and Islamic philosophy at Durham, then Islamic studies at McGill, before returning to Pakistan to direct the Central Institute of Islamic Research from 1962 to 1968. Amid political controversy over his reformist views, he moved to the United States and in 1969 became the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Islamic Thought at the University of Chicago, where he built a leading program in Near Eastern studies and taught until his death in Chicago on July 26, 1988. Rahman is associated with a "neo-modernist" approach that took classical Islamic learning seriously while engaging modern thought. His best-known proposal, the "double movement" method of interpretation, reads Qurʾanic rulings first within their historical setting and then derives principles for present application. His landmark books include Islam, Islamic Methodology in History, Prophecy in Islam, Revival and Reform in Islam, Major Themes of the Qurʾan, and Islam and Modernity. Major Themes endures as a standard introduction to the scripture's ideas of God, humanity, society, prophethood, and the hereafter.
About the foreword writer
Ebrahim Moosa: Ebrahim Moosa is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame. His editorial work includes Revival and Reform in Islam: A Study of Islamic Fundamentalism, and he has contributed a foreword to Major Themes of the Qur'an. His scholarship engages Islamic thought, ethics, and intellectual history. The internal catalog sources available are limited to his institutional affiliation; further biographical detail is not available from current catalog data.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9780226702865
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Fazlur Rahman
Pages
208
Year Published
2009
Size
W-5.5 in | H-8.5 in | D-0.6 in
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