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About this BookThe volume offers the only up-to-date survey of scholarship on tafsīr as a genre and its place within the broader framework of Muslim scholarship.It represents the first attempt at analysing the fields in which Muslim exegetical activity takes place, its relation to other fields of learning and the conditions that influence the results of exegesis.It includes chapters by many leading experts in the field of tafsīr study. How and when did Qur'anic exegesis (tafsīr) emerge as a literary genre of its own? To what extent was it influenced by other disciplines, such as law, theology or philosophy? How did different political or theological agendas shape works of tafsīr, and in what ways did the genre develop over time and in different regions? These are some of the major questions which this book seeks to address.This book constitutes the first comprehensive attempt at describing the genre of Qur'anic exegesis in its broader intellectual context. Its aim is to provide a framework for understanding the boundaries of tafsīr and its interaction with other disciplines of learning, as well as the subgenres and internal divisions within the genre. It discusses the emergence of the genre in the beginnings of Islamic history and the changes and potential ruptures it has experienced in later times, the role of hadith, law, language, philosophy, theology and political ideology for the interpretive process, the regional dimension, the influx of modernist ideas and the process of writing tafs?r in languages other than Arabic.Among the fifteen authors who have contributed to the volume are leading scholars in the field as well as young researchers, which makes for a unique and fresh perspective on a field that has long been reduced to its instrumental value for understanding the Qur'an. Covering the time from the formation of Qur'anic exegesis until the present, it is a valuable resource for advanced students and scholars in the field.Readership: Students and scholars of Islamic intellectual history; of religious studiesTable of ContentsJohanna Pink and Andreas Görke: IntroductionI: The Formation of Boundaries: Early Evolution of the Genre1: Catherine Bronson: Eve in the Formative Period of Islamic Exegesis: Intertextual Boundaries and Hermeneutic Demarcations2: Claude Gilliot: Mujāhid's Exegesis: Beginnings, Ways of Transmission and Development of a Meccan Exegetical Tradition in its Human, Spiritual and Theological Environment3: Nicolai Sinai: The Qur'anic Commentary of Muqātil b. Sulaymān and the Evolution of Early Tafsīr LiteratureII: Disciplinary Boundaries and their Permeation: The Place of Tafsīr in Islamic Scholarship4: Roberto Tottoli: Interrelations and Boundaries between Tafsīr and Hadith Literature: The Exegesis of Mālik b. Anas' Muwaṭṭa? and Classical Qur'anic Commentaries5: Ignacio Sánchez: Shāfiʿī Hemeneutics and Qur'anic Interpretation in al-Jāḥiẓ's Kitāb al-ʿUthmāniyya6: Rebecca Sauer: Tafsīr between Law and Exegesis: The Case of Q. 49:9III: Boundaries of Dogma and Theology: The Expression of Ideas through Tafsīr7: Nejmeddine Khalfallah: Al-Jurjānī: Exegesis Theory between Linguistics and Theological Dogma8: Abdessamad Belhaj: Interpretation and Reasoning in al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār's Qur'anic Hermeneutics9: Neguin Yavari: Tafsīr and The Mythology of IslamicFundamentalismIV: Reassessing Conventional Boundaries: Chronology, Geography, Media and Authorship10: Johanna Pink: Where Does Modernity Begin? Muḥammad al-Shawkānī and the Tradition of Tafsīr11: Andreas Görke: Redefining the Borders of Tafsīr: Oral Exegesis, Lay Exegesis and Regional Particularities12: Andrea Brigagli: Tafsīr and the Intellectual History of Islam in West AfricaV: An Expansion of Boundaries: The Tafsīr Tradition in Modern Times13: Kathrin Klausing: Two Twentieth-century Exegetes between Traditional Scholarship and Modern Thought: Gender Concepts in the Tafsīrs of Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭabāṭabā?ī and al-Ṭāhir b. ʿĀshūr14: Kathrin Eith: Yaşar Nuri Öztürk: A Contemporary Turkish Tafsīr Theorist15: Andrew Rippin: The Contemporary Translation of Classical Works Of TafsīrAuthor InformationEdited by Andreas Görke, Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Edinburgh, and Johanna Pink, Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of FreiburgAndreas Görke is Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He earned his Dr. phil. from the University of Hamburg in 2001 and his Habilitation from the University of Basel in 2010. He has worked as lecturer and researcher at the Universities of Hamburg and Basel, the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Freie Universität Berlin, and the University of Kiel, and served as acting professor for early and classical Islam at the University of Hamburg. His research interests include early Islamic history and historiography, the life of the Prophet Muhammad, Koran and Koranic exegesis, Hadith, Islamic law, the transmission of Arabic manuscripts, Islam in its late antique environment and the impact of modernity on Muslim thought.Johanna Pink is Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She obtained her doctorate from the University of Bonn in 2002 and has since worked as a lecturer, researcher and visiting professor at both the University of Tübingen and the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests include Muslim exegesis and translation of the Qur'an, the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims, and contemporary developments in Islamic law and thought. She has published books and articles on contemporary Sunni tafsīr, the status of non-Muslim minorities in Egypt, Muslim mass consumption and internet use, and various modern theological and legal debates.Contributors:Abdessamad Belhaj is assistant professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary.Andrea Brigaglia is a lecturer at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town.Catherine Bronson is a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago.Claude Gilliot is professor emeritus at the Université de Provence, Aix-en Provence.Kathrin Eith is currently working as a lecturer for Turkish at the University of Halle.Andreas Görke is a lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh.Nejmeddine Khalfallah is a lecturer at INALCO and at Sciences-Po Paris.Kathrin Klausing has completed her PhD at the Institute for Arabic Studies at the Free University of Berlin.Johanna Pink is professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Freiburg.Andrew Rippin is professor of Islamic History at the University of Victoria.Ignacio Sánchez is a PhD candidate at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge.Rebecca Sauer is a postdoctoral research fellow for the Collaborative Research Centre 'Material Text Cultures' at the University of Heidelberg.Nicolai Sinai is university lecturer at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, and fellow of Pembroke College.Roberto Tottoli is professor at the Università degli Studi di Napoli 'L'Orientale'.Neguin Yavari is assistant professor of Middle East History in the Committee on Historical Studies, The New School University.http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/academic/religion/islam/9780198702061.do?sortby=bookTitleAscend&#38;thumbby=10&#38;thumbby_crawl=10&#38;refType=1&#160;&#160;