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"Razi, Master of Quranic Interpretation and Theological Reasoning" par Tariq Jaffer (Janvier 2015)

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L’auteur

Tariq Jaffer is Associate Professor of Religion ; Chair of Religion at l’Amherst College (USA).

Biography : I received my secondary education at Upper Canada College (in Toronto) and my undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto. I then spent two and a half years at McGill University (Montreal, Quebec), where I undertook coursework in Islamic Studies, including classical Arabic and Persian. From McGill I went on to pursue my Ph.D in Religious Studies at Yale University. At Yale I studied the Qurʾān and Qurʾānic commentaries, Islamic philosophy and theology, Aristotle and Neoplatonism, medieval philosophy, classical Arabic poetry, Ancient Greek, Persian (Middle and Modern), and Islamic Mysticism. I joined the Religion Department at Amherst College in 2008. (Source : Amherst College)

Présentation

Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1148 - 1210) wrote prolifically in the disciplines of theology, Quranic exegesis, and philosophy. He composed treatises on jurisprudence, medicine, physiognomy, astronomy, and astrology. His body of work marks a momentous turning point in the Islamic tradition and his influence within the post-classical Islamic tradition is striking. After his death in 1210 his works became standard textbooks in Islamic institutions of higher learning. Razi investigates his transformative contributions to the Islamic intellectual tradition.

One of the leading representatives of Sunni orthodoxy in medieval Islam, Razi was the first intellectual to exploit the rich heritage of ancient and Islamic philosophy to interpret the Quran. Jaffer uncovers Razi’s boldly unconventional intellectual aspirations. The book elucidates the development of Razi’s unique appropriation of methods and ideas from ancient and Islamic philosophy into a unified Quranic commentary—and consequently into the Sunni worldview.

Jaffer shows that the genre of Quranic commentary in the post-classical period contains a wealth of philosophical material that is of major interest for the history of philosophical ideas in Islam and for the interaction of the aqli ("rational") and naqli ("traditional") sciences in Islamic civilization. Jaffer demonstrates the ways Razi reconciled the opposing intellectual trends of his milieu on major methodological conflicts. A highly original work, this book brilliantly repositions the central aims of Razi’s intellectual program.

Table des matières

Introduction

1. Forging a New Methodology
2. Devising Rules of Exegesis
3. Reconciling Reason (’Aql) and Transmitted Knowledge (Naql)
4. Interpreting the Intellect and Light
5. Interpreting the Soul and Spirit

Bibliography
Index


Voir en ligne : Oxford University Press (OUP)