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1 A Reader's Introduction |
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A contemporary reading of the Qur'in and the issues it poses: the bond between the book and its own `people': the task of the external reader and the urge to take it up: Arabic and chronology: content and context in their relationship: courtesy and realism in relation to traditional commentary: Quranic theism and the secular age: the familiar mind, and die open mind, of the Qur'an |
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2 Having the Text by Heart |
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Hifz of the Qur'an, its meaning and significance: the art of tajwid: dhikr or remembering: the book in the currency of memory: Ibn Khaldun as an example of the quoting instinct |
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3 The Explicit and the Implicit |
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Responsible attitudes to the text: the Qur'an's own basic principle as to what is definitive and what is figurative: the nature of muhkamat and mutashabihat in Surah 3: 7: `die mother of the book': recurrent themes and the duty of discernment: attitudes of intellectualist or mystical perception: the Scripture in its time and with its audience: the capacity for understanding |
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4 The Exegetical Tradition |
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Three classical commentators: Fakhr al-Din al-Razi on Surah 97: Al-Baidawi on Surah 11a: Al-Zamakhsharl on Surah 90: the preoccupations of traditional exegesis and a present reckoning with their concerns: Bint al-Shati in recent commentary on Surah 93: the modern reader's duty with, and beyond, the old exegetes |
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A different justice to the great original: la'alia, the great `perhaps' of the Qur'an about its own hearers and readers: the tests of right reading: pseudo-scientific claims and their rejection: the religious awareness of man in the natural order: die `oaths' of the Qur'in: praise and the due sense of God: the significance of the Fatikah, or opening Surah: in the context of sujud or worship: `the Lord of all being': `the straight path': the ultimate issue of the role of prophet-hood in the rule of God: the crisis in Muhammad's experience of human rejection: Islam institutionalized in state-power: this vital clue as the central religious theme |
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Birth and sexuality in the Qur'an: the mystery of man: the dark shadows in the ruin of cities and the unheeded prophets in their sequence: human obduracy: `the earth and her burdens': man `prone to evil': zulm as a pivotal term and its deep implications in the Qur'an: nifaq or hypocrisy: the marad or sickness of man: the personal continuum after death: Quranic eschatology and the questions relating to it: `A vale of soul-making' |
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7 The Seeking of Forgiveness |
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Istaghfir Allik and its implications as a reiterated Quranic command: self-accusation and the sense of the need for pardon: God as its direction: seeking forgiveness and seeking `protection': pardon and pilgrimage: the will to extrication from the evils of life: being forgiving: divine Rahmah or mercy: its Quranic quality: its meaning as evoking the mercy of man: contemporary issues, Marxist and secular, that belong with evil and its retrieval: forgiveness as the largest test of man |
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God and man: the divine recognition--the human choice: the atheist interpretation of the human and Quranic theism: the phrase nun duni-llahi and the human non-acknowledgement of God: Tauhid and shirk in their Quranic antithesis: pagan pluralism: different gods and indifferent humans: man's recent idolatries: `being absolute for God alone' in Islam: ikhlas and istighna: secularity and `the right of the rightful God': the liberty to be idolatrous and the true submission: the dominion of man and the poetry of experience |
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The Quranic dyat: man arrested by phenomena: perceptiveness, religious and scientific: `the ground is holy': the central concept of kufr: man in ingratitude: unity in plurality: a monotheism of the imagination: thukr and the role of symbol: `friend of God in the universe' |
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10 Desiring the Face of God |
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The Sufi mind and the Qur'an: the tension between an authoritative Scripture and a mystical liberty: the book as the guardian of orthodoxy and the fount of Sufi vitality: passages most notably possessed by Islamic mysticism: `the face of God': the Surah of Light: the divine Names: Tauhid and Fans': the soul's allegiance: the paradox of the self |
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11 Directive and Direction |
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Review: the authoritative Scripture and the communal mind: direction of development in the sense of Quranic directives: being Muslim with the Qur'in today: the question of textual `criticism': the form of authority to faith: examples of flexibility in interpretation: pragmatic change: surviving supposed indispensables: being Islamic in the world: the issue of secularization: DSr al-Islam and its feasible modern meaning: the concept of repugnancy to the Qur'an: being religious with Islam: the ecumenical questions: the Qur'in in universal religious dialogue |
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