The Qur'an Modern Muslim Interpretations [Paperback]

The Quran: Modern Muslim Interpretationsoffers a lucid guide to how Muslims have read the Quran in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Massimo Campanini explores early approaches to the understanding of the Quran, including that of the Salafis and the construction of the Islamic Renaissance Movement, contrasting the development of traditionalist and scientific interpretations and examining the work of the phenomenologists who followed. This lively book explores the radical ideas of Sayyid Qutb and his followers, a significant part of what is known as political Islamism, and investigates the idea of exegesis as a liberation theology, through the work of Esack and Wadud.

Students taking courses on the interpretation of the Quran will find this an invaluable aid to their study, and it is essential reading for all those interested in how Muslims have understood the Quran in the contemporary period.

Introduction: The Quran and Praxis  1. Traditional Commentary  2. The Quran as Text, Discourse and Structure  3. Radical Exegesis of the Quran: Sayyid Qutb  4. The Quran and the Hermeneutics of Liberation  Appendix: Other Areas of Quranic Exegesis

'This work provides a unique survey of modern Muslim voices dealing with the Qur'an and subjects them to insightful analysis. Paying attention to both academic and popular writers who are engaged in eliciting meaning from the Qur'an that is meaningful in the world of the 20th and 21st centuries, the author provides an incisive overview to the range of Muslim thought in the Arab world as well as Iran, Europe and further afield.' Andrew Rippin, University of Victoria, Canada

'This is an impressive survey of the topic of the Qur'an and its interpretation in the modern period ... Professors Campaninis work deserves to be widely read and itslÃY