Shaping a Qur'anic worldview : scriptural hermeneutics and the rhetoric of moral reform in the Caliphate of al-Ma'un / Vanessa De Gifis.
"Exploring the subjectivity of the Qurʼān's meaning in the world, this book analyses Qurʼānic referencing in Muslim political rhetoric. Informed by classical Arabic-Islamic rhetorical theory, the author examines Arabic documents attributed to the ʻAbbāsid Caliph al-Maʼmūn (r. 813-833),...
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London : Hoboken :
Routledge ; Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in the Qurʼān.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes; Bibliography; Part I Hermeneutical theory; 1 Circumstances of referencing; When: Occasions and objectives; Who: Authors and audiences; Notes; Bibliography; 2 Techniques of referencing; What: Themes and literary forms in the Qur'ān; Where: Compositional location; How: Formal integration; Why: Analogical claims; Notes; Bibliography; Part II Practical case study; 3 Civil war; Circumstances of the war correspondences; Techniques of referencing.
- Significance of referencing in civil war rhetoricNotes; Bibliography; 4 Foreign relations and jihād; Circumstances of jihād; Techniques of referencing; Significance of referencing in inter-faith discourse; Notes; Bibliography; 5 The mihṇa; Circumstances of the mihṇa; Techniques of referencing in the mihṇa letters; Significance of referencing in the mihṇa; Notes; Bibliography; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Index of Qur'ānic References.