Edited by Karen Bauer
- Essays written by leading scholars, who provide multiple perspectives on the interpretation of the Qur’an.
- Focuses on the genre of tafsir in the 2nd/8th to the 9th/15th centuries and shows how theories and contexts affect the content and method of exegesis.
- Individual essays emphasise how geography, human networks, hermeneutical systems and genre boundaries affected the writing of tafsir.
- Includes Arabic editions and translations of two introductions: al-Basit by al-Wahidi and the Tahdhib fi Tafsir al-Qur’an of al-Jishumi, as well as the translation of sections of the tafsir of al-Kashani
- Proposes new methods for the study of the genre of tafsir
Dr. Karen Bauer (PhD, Princeton, 2008) is a Research Associate in the Qur’anic Studies unit at Institute of Ismaili Studies. She specialises in Islamic social and intellectual history; her specific interests include the Qur’an and its interpretation (tafsir), gender and slavery in Islamic history and thought, genre and its effect on discourse, and the transition from medieval to modern in Islamic thought. Much of her work is motivated by the question of how social and intellectual context affect the content of texts.
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