scholarly journals In the Presence of the Sublime Qur’an

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-125
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
General Theme ◽  
Strong Interest ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Lecture Series ◽  
Qur'anic Exegesis ◽  
Qur'anic Interpretation

This volume represents an especially modern viewpoint with regard to understandingthe Qur’an and its message, while also being firmly embedded intraditional approaches and methods for its interpretation. The commentaryconsists of a number of lectures originally given in Persian by AbdolaliBazargan as a weekly lecture series in Irvine, CA. These lectures, a portionof which have been translated and edited into this single volume, were initiallypresented to groups of lay Muslims interested in the general theme of “becomingacquainted with the Qur’an” (p. xiv).The author, Abdolali Bazargan, is part of the laity himself: an architectby profession. While not having been fully trained in the traditional sciences98 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 34:2of Qur’anic interpretation, his strong interest in Qur’anic exegesis (accordingto the editor) has led him to spend “the last 55 years researching it and writing20 books in the field of Qur’anic sciences” (p. xiv). This volume is thus a laycommentary on the Qur’an’s “short surahs,” namely al-Fātiḥah and the lastjuz’ (chapters 78-114). Although no specific argument or thesis holds the entiretyof the work together, it nevertheless stands as a representative sampleof modern (educated) Muslim engagement with the text of the Qur’an and itsramifications for their lived religious tradition, particularly in the modernworld ...

scholarly journals Tafsir Pesantren: Menakar Unsur Lokalitas Tafsir Jāmi' al-Bayān min Khulāṣat Suwar al-Qur'ān Karya Muḥammad b. Sulaymān (1911-1991)

MUTAWATIR ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 342-364
Author(s):  
Abu Sufyan
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Qur'anic Exegesis ◽  
Qur'anic Interpretation

Abstract: This article aims to reveal the locality of the brief Qur’anic exegesis of Muḥammad b. Sulaymān’s Jāmi‘ al-Bayān. By using content analysis, this study argues the existing of intersections between the Qur’anic interpretation and pesantren tradition. Several studies maintained that to build this harmonization, the traditional exegetes are used to transmit their interpretations in the form of Arabic “pegon” with the typical identity of “makna ghandul”. This article conversely argues that the Arabic language used in the interpretation of Jāmi‘ al-Bayān, which is written by a traditional and local ulama (kiai), could also be an alternative in the study of the Qur’an in the local context of pesantren. This article also maintains that although Muḥammad b. Sulaymān’s Jāmi‘ al-Bayān does not represent ideally the identity and tradition of pesantren in Java, his exegesis affirms the traditional pesantren values in two ways, namely teaching Arabic which is the pesantren curriculum and the affirmation of the Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamā‘ah faith in responding to the excessive ta’wīl. Keywords: traditionalist, locality, tafsir Jāmi‘ al-Bayān, pesantren.   Abstrak: Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap unsur lokalitas dalam tafsir ringkas Jāmi‘ al-Bayān karya Muḥammad b. Sulaymān. Dengan menggunakan analisis konten, kajian ini menunjukkan adanya persinggungan antara tafsir al-Qur’an dan tradisi pesantren. Meskipun beberapa penelitian telah menunjukkan bahwa untuk membangun harmonisasi tersebut, para mufasir tradisional mentransmisikan penafsirannya dengan menggunakan huruf pegon dan makna ghandul sehingga melekat pada tradisi pengkajian al-Qur’an di pesantren. Sebaliknya, artikel ini berasumsi bahwa tafsir Jāmi‘ al-Bayān yang berbahasa Arab, yang ditulis oleh kiai lokal tradisional, bisa menjadi alternatif dalam pengkajian al-Qur’an khususnya di pesantren. Lebih jauh artikel ini menyimpulkan bahwa walaupun tafsir Jāmi‘ al-Bayān tidak merepresentasikan identitas dan tradisi pesantren di Jawa, di tengah kuatnya karya tafsir berbahasa lokal, tetapi tafsir ini meneguhkan nilai-nilai tradisi pesantren dalam dua hal, yaitu pengajaran bahasa Arab yang menjadi kurikulum pesantren dan peneguhan akidah Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-jama‘ah dalam merespon fenomena ta’wil yang berlebihan. Kata kunci: tradisionalis, lokalitas, tafsir Jāmi‘ al-Bayān, pesantren.

Reltrad Coding Problems and a New Repository

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed Stetzer ◽  
Ryan P. Burge
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Classification Scheme ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Popular Approach ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mainline Protestant

While there have been many approaches to classifying religious traditions in the social sciences (see Hackett and Lindsay 2008), the most popular approach is the religious tradition classification scheme, which was most carefully systematized by Steensland et al. (2000). Their widely-embraced article argued that the most accurate typology of religiosity was to sort individuals into seven distinct groups: evangelical Protestant, mainline Protestant, black Protestant, Jewish, Catholic, other religious groups, and no religion. This approach has become popularly known as “reltrad” and its usage in academic writing is voluminous. A brief search of Google Scholar indicates that over 900 published articles and books utilized the reltrad framework. However, the implementation of this typology has never been fully and accurately operationalized.

scholarly journals Nature Conservation in Islam: an Analysis on M. Quraish Shihab’s Qur’anic Interpretation

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
Rani Tania Riatno
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Strong Belief ◽  
The World ◽  
Nature Preservation ◽  
Qur'anic Exegesis ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Qur'anic Interpretation

Nowadays, environmental problems have become hot and interesting issues to discuss. Natural damages which occur in almost all parts of the world have attracted serious attention among experts and nature lovers as well as motivated them to work out to save the environment from demages. Besides theoretical concept of how to reduce nature damages, many efforts have been done in order to preserve the nature. Some of these exertions result in success, but some of them get failed. Consequently, it occurs to some people to seek for another solution or outlook, namely from the perspective of religion. It is to say that among moslem scholars there is a strong belief that Islam has provided specific guidelines pertaining to the conservation of universe. Some of them can be traced in the divine verses throughout the book of al-Qur’an. In line with this notion, the writer is interested in exploring the concept of Islam on nature preservation in the field of tafsir (Qur’anic exegesis). The present article will examine nature conservatory understanding of an outstanding scholar in Indonesia, M. Quraish shihab, whose quite extensive books on tafsir are entitled “Tafsir al-Misbah”. Shihab’s thought deserves our attention because he has paid much interest in his books of tafsir on the issues of nature and its preservation.

Causation in the Social Sciences

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Kincaid
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social World ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
General Theme ◽  
The Social

Because of the obstacles to experimentation and because of the complexity of the social world, the social sciences present fertile grounds for investigating issues surrounding causation. This article aims to sketch a number of issues and only secondarily argues for particular positions. It approaches the issues that are discussed with some general background assumptions that frame the issues and are also supported by the topics discussed. Those assumptions concern the nature of causal claims in general, more specifically, questions about the extent to which our understanding of causation can be perfectly general. It presents a number of issues about the ontology and epistemology of causation in the social sciences. The general theme is that these issues cannot be decided in the abstract but must pay careful attention to the empirical presuppositions made and the kinds of evidence for them.

scholarly journals Det hellige og det sublime

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Hastrup
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
General Point ◽  
Possible World ◽  
Social Fact ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Human And Social Sciences ◽  
The Social ◽  
A Site

The article explores the notion of the sacred in human experience and in scholarship. By an investigation of the sacred as a social category, as first established in the social sciences by Durkheim in 1915, it is argued that this method does not take us near the sacred as it is experienced. Instead, it leaves us with the study of what is at best transfigured representations of the sacre, in texts, rites or cults. By treating the sacred as a social fact, we are bound to remain within a language that cannot capture the experimental nature of the sacred. With reference to Bateson it is argues that the sacred by its nature defies language and retreats to a site of secrecy, which we can only represent as shadows in language. It is suggested that the experience of the sacred is close to the experience of the sublime, as we know it from art. Ritual is compared to theatre, and their relative power in making participants experience a possible world byond the known is discussed.The general point is that ontologically, the sacred is not in the things that represent it, such as texts, rites or chcurches, but in human experience of it. Therefore, the issue whether the sacred can be put to political use is wrong; only the representations and their doorkeepers can be put to such use. The sacred defies it. By way of conclusion it is argued, with reference to Charles Taylor, that the traditional view of theory in the human and social sciences as 'designative' should now give way to a view of theory as 'ecpressive'. Theories must do more than 'mirror' nature, i.e. describe the sacred by its representations in the landscape, they must also realize in their own terms what is not readily seen, and what is not expressed anywhere but in the theory itself, such as for instance the sublime nature of scared experiences.

scholarly journals Kontribusi Kiai Shaleh Darat dalam Penulisan Tafsir di Indonesia

MUTAWATIR ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-253
Author(s):  
Istianah Istianah
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Dutch Government ◽  
Cultural Resistance ◽  
Muslim Scholar ◽  
Qur'anic Exegesis ◽  
Qur'anic Interpretation ◽  
Dutch Colonialism

This article discusses the contribution of Kiai Shaleh Darat, a prominent Muslim scholar as well as a noticeable warrior against Western invaders, in writing Qur’anic commentaries in Indonesia. His Qur’anic commentary entitled Fayd al-Rahman fi Tarjamat Tafsir Kalam Malik al-Dayyan, written in Javanese-Arabic (pegon), is not only considered as a representation of Javanese identity, but also as a means of resistance against Dutch colonialism. Through interpretation, he is not only giving an understanding of the Qur’an, but also managing a resistance through the Qur’anic exegesis. That is because at that time the Dutch government forbade the translation of the Qur’an. This interpretation is written using the method of tahlili (explanation) with Sufis nuance which becomes the spirit in each word of his interpretation. Shaleh Darat was greatly influenced by Sufism figures such as Imam al-Ghazali through his Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din and Ibn ‘Ata’illah through his Hikam. Thi article eventually argues that Fayd al-Rahman has, at least, three contributive manifestations in the discourse of Indonesia Qur’anic interpretation: the Qur’anic sufism, cultural resistance, and community development in instilling the values of goodness.

scholarly journals ASINOMINITAS DALAM PEMBACAAN KRITIS ATAS BUKU AL-KITĀB WA AL-QUR`ĀN QIRĀ`AH MU’ĀṢIRAH KARYA M. SYAḤRŪR

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Andi Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Qur'anic Exegesis ◽  
Qur'anic Interpretation

Muhammad Syaḥrūr is one of the Islamic thinkers who introduces a new accounts related to the study of Qur’anic exegesis. By using historical and scientific approaches, he refuses the idea of sinonymity (tarāduf) in the Qur’an. For him, there is a substantial difference between “nabi” and “rasūl”, as well as other terms such as “al-kitāb, al-Qur’ān, al-ẓikr, and al-Furqān”. Based on his rejection to this idea, Syaḥrūr constructs his own theories concerning Qur’anic interpretation. There are several books that represent the anti-thesis to the Syaḥrūr’s ideas. This article tries to formulate its synthesis. With reference to the classic linguistic literatures, the author proves that the Qur’an contains the synonymities, and it apparently weakens the Syaḥrūr’s argumentation.

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