Logic, Rhetoric and Legal Reasoning in the Qur'an

Author: Rosalind Ward Gwynne
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134345003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
Muslims have always used verses from the Qur'an to support opinions on law, theology, or life in general, but almost no attention has been paid to how the Qur'an presents its own precepts as conclusions proceeding from reasoned arguments. Whether it is a question of God's powers of creation, the rationale for his acts, or how people are to think clearly about their lives and fates, Muslims have so internalized Qur'anic patterns of reasoning that many will assert that the Qur'an appeals first of all to the human powers of intellect. This book provides a new key to both the Qur'an and Islamic intellectual history. Examining Qur'anic argument by form and not content helps readers to discover the significance of passages often ignored by the scholar who compares texts and the believer who focuses upon commandments, as it allows scholars of Qur'anic exegesis, Islamic theology, philosophy, and law to tie their findings in yet another way to the text that Muslims consider the speech of God.

Logic, Rhetoric and Legal Reasoning in the Qur'an

Author: Rosalind Ward Gwynne
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134344996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Logic, Rhetoric and Legal Reasoning in the Qur"Õan

Author: Rosalind Ward Gwynne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Intellect
Languages : en
Pages : 251

Book Description

The Exceptional Qurʾān

Author: Johanne Louise Christiansen
Publisher: Gorgias Press
ISBN: 9781463207298
Category : Arabic language
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
This monograph examines the principle of dispensation in the Qur'an, which seems to be, if not unique, articulated in a new manner compared to previous religions (cf. Deut 12,32). The Qur'anic dispensations have never been systematically studied and this monograph aims to fill this vacuum in the fields of Qur'anic studies and the Study of Religion.

Qur'an and Modern Jurisprudence

Author: Mustafa Kamal Sherwani
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 456

Book Description
This Volume Has Been Divided Into Eleven Chapters, Each Dealing, To The Extant Possible, With Various Ideological Perceptions Of Jurisprudence, And Their Comparative Analysis With Qu`Ranic Injunctions.

Qur'anic Reasoning

Author: J R Ahmed
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781794544543
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692

Book Description
This is volume 2 in The Qur'an Unchained Series by the author. It is another set of various Qur'an centred topics with the aim of removing all false beliefs that have drowned out its Message:13:17 He sends down water from the height causing the riverbeds to flow according to their measure and the flood bears on its surface swelling foam. When they use fire to refine metals for their jewellery or equipment, foam is produced like it. In this way, God is citing for you the example of the truth and falsehood. For, as far as the foam is concerned, it passes away as scum upon the riverbanks - While that which is of benefit to mankind, exists on earth. This is how God uses analogies for you to understand. [The real existence on earth is of that which benefits humanity]Each topic is broken down so that the reader is taken step by step through a learning or re-programming journey, using abundant Qur'anic verses in their full context, as well as showing where the beliefs and practices of so-called 'Muslims' have come from, aka their Bukharian lord.

Islam's Reformation of Christianity

Author: Zulfiqar Ali Shah
Publisher: Claritas Books
ISBN: 1800119933
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Jesus was a product of Semitic monotheism, moral law, piety and humility. His kingdom was the other worldly. His ethical monotheism was transformed by the Roman Empire and mythology. The supernatural, Trinitarian and miraculous Roman Christianity transitioned into unintelligible dogmas, the abolition of law, moral laxity, this worldly kingdom and divine right absolutism. Natural theology, law, cosmology and politics were all compromised. Religious freedom was barred, and persecutions were normalised. Latin Christendom was a persecutory society. Islam was an intellectual cure to Christian paradoxes and an egalitarian pluralistic alternate to Christian inquisitions and religiopolitical absolutism. It spread in the Eastern Christian territories like a bush fire. This reformation of Christian excesses in religiopolitical theology reformed its paradoxical incarnational theology, antinomianism, grace-based salvation scheme, divine right Church and monarchy, interventionist cosmology and religious persecutions. This insightful and groundbreaking new book provides an in-depth study of the Is- lamic, Southern Reformation of Christianity; a reformation seldom acknowledged or studied by the historians. It explores how the Islamic reformative scheme emphasised ethical, transcendental monotheism, natural theology and rational discourse. It limited monarchy and placed significance on an inclusive, pluralistic and free society. The Seventh Century Islamic natural, rational, moral, republican and egalitarian reformation was the Southern Reformation of Christianity, long before the partial Northern Reformation of Luther and Calvin.

The Quran and the Secular Mind

Author: Shabbir Akhtar
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134072562
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 411

Book Description
This book is concerned with the rationality and plausibility of the Muslim faith and the Qur'an, and in particular how they can be interrogated and understood through Western analytical philosophy. It also explores how Islam can successfully engage with the challenges posed by secular thinking. The Quran and the Secular Mind will be of interest to students and scholars of Islamic philosophy, philosophy of religion, Middle East studies, and political Islam.

Narratives in Conflict

Author: Matthew Aaron Bennett
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532677685
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Did Jesus die on the cross for our sins as the Gospels describe? Or, as Muslims often contend, was Jesus rescued to heaven in order to avoid the shameful crucifixion that would be unbefitting of a messenger of God? This debate has raged for generations and has caused no shortage of frustration among those seeking to explain the central teaching of the Christian faith to those influenced by the Qur'an. What this book aims to do is uncover four barriers to understanding the biblical teaching on atonement that likely exist in the minds of our Muslim friends prior to asking about the historical reality of the Christ event. What we will discover is that the Qur'an diverges from the biblical teaching on atonement at the lexical, ritual, narrative, and worldview levels. Each of these points of divergence presents a barrier to communication. Therefore, before arguing with our Muslim friends that Jesus died on the cross, we must provide an answer to the prior question, why would it matter? This book argues that the Letter to the Hebrews provides a particularly helpful biblical starting point for overcoming all four barriers.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an

Author: Andrew Rippin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118964802
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 687

Book Description
Fully revised and updated, the second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'ān offers an ideal resource for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Qur'ān as a text and as a vital component of Muslim life. While retaining the literary approach to the subject, this new edition extends both the theological and philosophical approaches to the Qur'ān. Edited by the noted authority on the Qur'ān, Andrew Rippin, and Islamic Studies scholar Jawid Mojaddedi, and with contributions from other internationally renowned scholars, the book is comprehensive in scope and written in clear and accessible language. New to this edition is material on modern exegesis, the study of the Qur'ān in the West, the relationship between the Qur'ān and religions prior to Islam, and much more. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'ān is a rich and wide-ranging resource, exploring the Qur'ān as both a religious text and as a work of literature.