Reading the Qur’an in the Twenty-First Century considers the development of Qur’anic interpretation and highlights modern debates around new approaches to interpretation. It explores how Muslims from ...various theological, legal, socio-political and philosophical backgrounds think about the meaning and relevance of the Qur’an, and how their ideas apply in the contemporary world. The book: reflects on one of the most dominant approaches to interpretation in the pre-modern period, textualism, and the reaction to that in Muslim feminist readings of the Qur’an today covers issues such as identifying the hierarchical nature of Qur’anic values, the criteria for the use of hadith in interpretation, fluidity of meaning and ways of ensuring a degree of stability in interpretation examines key Qur'anic passages and compares pre-modern and modern interpretations to show the evolving nature of interpretation. Examples discussed include: the authority of men over women, the death of Jesus, shura and democracy, and riba and interest Abdullah Saeed provides a practical guide for interpretation and presents the principal ideas of a contextualist approach, which situates the original message of the Qur’an in its wider social, political, cultural, economic and intellectual context. He advocates a more flexible method of interpretation that gives due recognition to earlier interpretations of the Qur’an while also being aware of changing conditions and the need to approach the Qur’an afresh today. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Fringe political actors' Qur'an desecrations in Scandinavia have over the past few years resulted in international media attention, diplomatic crises, calls for boycotts and pressures from Muslim ...states and organisations to criminalize such acts. This article explores the historical genealogies of Qur'an desecration - a transnational phenomenon - that emerged in the wake of the post-9/11 'Global War on Terror'. In Norway, public Qur'an burnings have been integral to the strategies of the far-right organization Stop the Islamisation of Norway (SIAN) since 2019. Inspired by Titley's notion of far-right "free speech capture", we demonstrate that Qur'an burning functions as a powerful symbolic means to incite hatred against Islam and Muslims in the name of "free speech". We contend that Qur'an burning in the Norwegian context lies at the intersection between transnational and national flows and modalities of Islamophobia.
The research aims to analyze the principles of implementing education according to the Al-Qur’an. The Al-Qur’an is a source of guidance for Muslims in carrying out their lives, including conducting ...education. The principles of implementing education are contained in the Al-Qur’an which can be used as a guide for stakeholders and teachers in carrying out their duties. Developing principles for implementing education based on Islamic education philosophy in the Al-Qur’an will produce comprehensive guidance for believers. The research method used in this brief study was a content analysis of the Al-Qur’an to determine the philosophy of educational principles based on the Al-Qur’an. Systematic linguistic analysis in the original Al-Qur’an text and the translation of the Al-Qur’an in English to reveal the principles of educational implementation was carried out. Based on the research results, it can be concluded that there are several principles for implementing education contained in the Al-Qur’an. The first component of the educational principle is reasoning which is promoted in the Al-Qur’an, namely inferential, independent reasoning and facilitated reasoning. The second principle of implementing education is that implementing education is oriented towards developing moral character through various learning process activities or what is called orthopractic theology. The contribution of this research is the discovery of a strong principled basis for implementing education and becoming the basis for hermeneutical research to investigate the philosophy of implementing education based on the Al-Qur’an that can be applied in real life situations. This research has implications for the practice of implementing education in Indonesia. Teachers must pay attention to the learning methods used that can likely optimize students' reasoning abilities and must accommodate methods of remembering, listening and reading literacy activities.
This article explains the quarantine program for quickly memorizing the Qur’an. Because students are motivated to memorize quickly, this quarantine program is exciting. This study examines how the ...Qur’an Memorizing Quarantine Program at Madrasatul Qur’an Islamic boarding school Mambaul Falah Tambilung Tambak Bawean Gresik can help students memorize the Qur’an in a relatively short period. Using qualitative, descriptive data sources such as observation and interviews, Miles and Huberman analysis, and source triangulation to ensure data validity. The findings of this study indicate that the Koran memorization quarantine program is highly effective because students are solely focused on memorizing the Koran and are constantly guided by ustadz with core and companion or supporting programs.
The ability to read the Qur'an according to the rules of tajweed science is a requirement that helps a memorizer of the Qur'an easily and quickly. However, this ability is sometimes still low, thus ...requiring the process of optimizing the ability of tahsin tilawah Al-Qur'an before tahfiz Qur'an. This study aims to analyze the correlation between the ability to read the Qur'an and the quality of memorization of the Qur'an. The method used in this research is quantitative. The population in this study were students of Ma'had Abu Ubaidah bin Al-Jarrah tahfiz house. Data collection using questionnaire techniques, tests, interviews, and document analysis. Questionnaires to measure the level of ease and difficulty that students go through in the memorization process. The results of this study indicate that the significance value is 0.959> 0.05, which means that there is a true influence between the recitation of the students' Al-Qur'an on the results of memorizing students at the Ma'had Abu Ubaidah bin Al-Jarrah Tahfiz House. The results of this study recommend that future researchers can research in terms of management, methods, learning strategies, and so on related to Tahfiz Ma'had Abu Ubaidah bin Al-Jarrah House.
The article overviewed the Qur’anic textual authority in practices and the concept of living in Qur’anic behaviours for Monotheism and Sufism, a council of study in Aceh province. As it is known for ...a board of study existence, Majelis Pengkajian Tauhid Tasawuf Indonesia (MPTTI) is growing more controversial regarding religious harmony in Islamic group society and its particular Sufism teaching. Nevertheless, despite these controversial phenomena, the council retains its teaching principles. The board exclusively refers to its teaching on Qur’an scriptures and verses as countermeasures of marginality and oppression. The committee believed in the authority of Sufism teaching, which was baselined on the Qur’an. The article projected how the council employs the scripture to formulate Sufism with a phenomenology approach to the engagement of living hadith in practice. Later, the board exploits the scripture as the source to establish critique for disavowing acceptance behaviours in society. The council intends to restore the communal into the proper stream of Islamic tradition. Parallel to these intriguing findings, the commission proclaims the Al Qur’an as an appropriate establishment of primary character reference. Eventually, the fascinating texts employed by the council also drive to strengthen the validity of council identity on national and even international coverage, which overlaps other boards in the region.
Through extensive textual analysis, this open access book reveals how various passages of the Qur’an define death and resurrection spiritually or metaphorically. While the Day of Resurrection is a ...major theme of the Qur’an, resurrection has largely been interpreted as physical, which is defined as bones leaving their graves. However, this book shows that the Qur’an sometimes alludes to death and resurrection in a metaphoric manner – for example, rebuilding a desolate town, typically identified as Jerusalem, and bringing the Israelite exiles back; thus, suggesting awareness and engagement with Jewish liturgy. Many times, the Qur’an even speaks of non-believers as spiritually dead, those who live in this world, but are otherwise zombies. The author presents an innovative theory of interpretation, contextualizing the Qur’an within Late Antiquity and traces the Qur’anic passages back to their Biblical, extra-biblical and rabbinic subtexts and traditions. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
Allah has created everything by His power, One of His greatness is the creation of water which is needed by living things on this earth. Water is a very important element for the life of living ...things. Like plants need water to grow. There are many verses that talk about water in the Quran. In Arabic, water is called the word “al-maa”. This research was conducted to find out the meaning and nature of water in the Qur'an from a scientific perspective and the methods of the mufassirs in interpreting the Kauniyyah verses. This research is library research using the thematic interpretation method (thematic), namely collecting verses of the Qur’an related to water, conducting an analysis with the interpretation of tahlili, and then draw conclusions. The results obtained in this study are water in Arabic is called the word “almanac” It turns out that water is mentioned in the Qur'an 63 times in 41 surah, and has different kinds according to the type and benefits. The method used by the mufassir to interpret the Kauniyyah verses is to pay attention to linguistic rules, verse correlation, established scientific facts, and use a thematic approach.
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