Hassan Rezaee Haftadur; Mohammad Qasemi Shoob; Safar Nasirian
Abstract
Nowadays, the discussion of religion territory is one of the important and challenging debates in the Islamic world. Sayyid Aḥmad Khān Hindī has been the first thinker who followed his contemporary orientalists in talking about the boundaries of the Quran and sunna territory. The viewpoints that ...
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Nowadays, the discussion of religion territory is one of the important and challenging debates in the Islamic world. Sayyid Aḥmad Khān Hindī has been the first thinker who followed his contemporary orientalists in talking about the boundaries of the Quran and sunna territory. The viewpoints that Sayyid Aḥmad Khān has provided in defining the boundaries of the Quran and sunna territory can be examined and evaluated in four directions, namely, sunna is the spirit of the divine message and its interpretation, and is similar to the Bible in this regard, sunna is mainly measured by intellect, and the otherworldly matters comprise the only arena of sunna revelation. However, there are some important criticisms against his viewpoints. First, he likens the sunna revelation to the Bible revelation, while there exist important differences between the two. Second, his consideration of the details of the sunna revelation as stemming from exegesis arises from Sayyid Aḥmad Khān’s viewpoint on the nature of revelation and his attribution of a human source to it. Third, adopting a strategic viewpoint to the qur’ānic verses leads us to the point that the human is created by God, and his will existentially and legally depends on His will; therefore, despite having the grace of intellect, he faces limitations in all paths of knowledge. Fourth, his viewpoint on revelation is similar to the Christian thinkers’ stance in this regard, and this viewpoint does not agree with the infallibility of the prophets.
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Abstract
One of the fundamental issues in exegetic interpretation of the Qur'an by the Qur'an is that this method of interpretation is based upon Quranic verses and the exegetist has to interpret the verses based on other verses; therefore, some exegetists, in their act of interpreting the Qur'an, claim independence ...
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One of the fundamental issues in exegetic interpretation of the Qur'an by the Qur'an is that this method of interpretation is based upon Quranic verses and the exegetist has to interpret the verses based on other verses; therefore, some exegetists, in their act of interpreting the Qur'an, claim independence from anything other than the Qur'an itself and advocate "Qur'an- adequacy" or "text-adequacy". With such a view about interpretation, some have attacked all fabricated narrations and see this large collection of narrations as invalid, and thus set aside sunna (normative custom of the Prophet) in the field of interpretation. The exegetists who interpret the Qur'an by the Qur'an have different attitudes toward the value of sunna and the narrations of the immaculate Imams (PBUT) in the field of interpretation. Although they have a similar interpretive methodology, their approach to the value of sound narrations can affect their interaction with narrations; examination of the interpretive works of contemporary exegetists shows this clearly. The present paper introduces the exegetic interpretation of the Qur'an by the Qur'an, examines the place of narrations in this method of interpretation and the approach of exegetists toward this method. In the next part, the paper tries to find out whether the exegetists have relied on narrations in their interpretations or not. The answer to this question is that most of the exegetists who use this method of interpretation have made use of narrations, but with differing approaches: some have employed narrations only to lend credence to their interpretation and others have ignored them altogether.
