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Title

Approaches to the Qur'an in contemporary Iran / edited by Alessandro Cancian.

Publication

• Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2019.
• ©2019

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• Cancian, Alessandro
• Institute of Ismaili Studies.

Description

xxii, 522 pages : map; 23 cm.

Summary

Approaches to the Qur'an in Contemporary Iran explores the importance of the Qur'an in the religious, artistic, political, and intellectual discourses in modern and contemporary Iran from the nineteenth century to the present. The chapters included in the volume have been written by some of the most authoritative specialists in the modern history of Iran. Their contributions span a wide range of subjects and themes, covering such varied ground as the examination of the trends in Qur'anic exegesis that are currently prominent in Iran, the use of Qur'anic themes in contemporary Iranian cinema, the concept of revelation as the basis of diverse political trends in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Sufi mystical interpretations of the Qur'an the use of the Qur'an in the arts, the Qur'an as a living scripture in specific intellectual and social circles, and case studies of individual intellectuals. Through this wide-ranging survey, the book aims to become a reference for anyone interested in the Qur'an's imprint on the religious, political, cultural, and anthropological history of modern and contemporary Iranian society.

Series Statement

Qur'anic studies series ; 18

Uniform Title

Qur'anic studies series ; 18.

Alternative Title

Qur'an in contemporary Iran

Subject

• Qurʼan
• Qurʼan > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Islam > Iran
• Islam
• Religion
• Iran > Religion
• Iran > Religious life and customs
• Iran

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-492) and indexes.

Contents

Section I: Power, Authority and Exegesis -- 1. The Rational-analytical tafsīr in modern Iran : The influence of the Uṣūlī School of Jurisprudence on the Interpretation of the Qur'an / Seyfeddin Kara -- 2. Striving Beyond the Balance (al-Mīzān) : Spiritual Practice and the Qur'an in the Ṭabāṭabā'ī ṭarīqa / Sajjad Rizvi -- 3. Privileging the Qur'an : Divorce and the Hermeneutics of Yūsuf Ṣāniī / Liyakat Takim -- 4. Al-Amir biʼl-maʻrūf and the Semiotics of Sovereignty in Contemporary Iran / Neguin Yavari -- 5. The Limits of a 'Fixed' Qur'an : The Iranian Religious Intellectual Movement and Islamic New Theology / Banafsheh Madaninejad -- 6. Soroush's Theory of Qur'anic Revelation : A Historical-Philosophical Appraisal / Yaser Mirdamadi -- Section II: Alternative Approaches : Between Marginality and Legitimacy -- 7. A Sufi Defence of the Qur'an : Ḥusayn 'Alī Shāh's Rebuttal of Henry Martyn / Reza Tabandeh -- 8. Abrogation and Falsification of Scripture according to Twelver Shi'i Authors in Iraq and Iran (19th-20th Centuries) / Rainer Brunner -- 9. Speaking the Secrets of Sanctity in the Tafsīr of Ṣafī 'Alī Shāh / Nicholas Boylston -- 10. Exegesis and the Place of Sufism in Nineteeth-Century Twelver Shi'ism : Sulṭān 'Alī Shāh Gunābādī and his Bayān al-sa'āda / Alessandro Cancian -- 11. In the Company of the Qur'an by Muḥyī al-Dīn Ilāhī Ghomshei / Leonard Lewisohn -- Section III: The Arts, Material Culture and Everyday Life -- 12. A Contemporary Illustrated Qur'an : Zenderoudi's Illustrations of Grosjean's Translation (1972) / Alice Bombardier -- 13. Women, Qur'an and the Power of Calligraphy in Contemporary Iran / Anna Vanzan -- 14. The Divine Word on the Screen : Imaging the Qur'an in Iranian Cinema / Nacim Pak-Shiraz -- 15. Notes on Ritual Prayer in Iran : Qunūt Choices among a Group of Shi'i Women / Niloofar Haeri -- 16. Contemporary Iranian Twelver Shi'i Women and the Oral Qur'an as Living Text / Ingvild Flaskerud -- 17. The Qur'an as an Aesthetical Model in Music? The Case of Muḥammad Riḍā Shajariyān between the Qurʹan and radīf / Giovanni De Zorzi.

Call Number

JFD 19-5554

ISBN

• 9780198840763
• 0198840764

OCLC

• 1133653082
• 1133653082

Title

Approaches to the Qur'an in contemporary Iran / edited by Alessandro Cancian.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Qur'anic studies series ; 18

Qur'anic studies series ; 18.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-492) and indexes.

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Added Author

Cancian, Alessandro, editor.

Institute of Ismaili Studies.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-5554