Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
The new Issue of Religions Journal would like to explore the correlation between the Qur’an, the word of God that through the Archangel Gabriel was inspired by God to Muhammad in the first half of the 7th century, and the historical events that in different ways have affected its understanding and interpretation during the thirteen centuries of Islamic history.
The main idea is to work on specific verses, precise suwar (part of them), or singular words through a historicized hermeneutical approach which could frame and share facets, insights, and makings which have settled the understanding of this revelation in a specific phase of Islam and human history.
Every single verse or chapter of a revealed text can be interpreted differently in relation to plural aspects (literalist semantics and metaphorical readings), at the same time, its significance can change in reference to the historical age as well as the events that widely influence its understanding by the society.
This Issue intends to highlight the complex connection between historical events and Koranic hermeneutics on specific arguments that emerged in the Islamic revelation. In the clear intention to not excessively circumscribe the historical phase, the focus is kept open, even if, in case, will be re-framed in relation to your abstract proposals.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2022.
The purpose of this Issue is to enrich the academic debate on the necessary historicization of the Koranic revelation, highlighting the evolution of the hermeneutics on its singular peculiarities. Accordingly, different main arguments treated in the Qur’an (the understanding of previous Abrahamic faiths, the relationship with disbelief, the violence against the Other, the gender issue, the prophecy, etc.) have been explained differently in relation with the historical age after the canonization of the written version as well as the different phases of Islamic advancement or closure.
The main idea, starting from the achievements of Th. Nöldeke’s contribution on “The History of the Qur’an” is to move in the direction of Gabriel S. Reynolds’ “The Qur’an in its historical context”, but with a more specific analysis not on the revelation, generally speaking, but on the most singular features to overstress the attention on unclear passages, remarkable matters that associate the revelation with a specific historical phase. This, to show as any revelation, including the Qur’an, is inextricably linked to a socio-historical humus of reference, hermeneutically interpreted as re-interpreted in History.
Manuscript Submission Information
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