{"product_id":"beyond-sectarianism-ambiguity-hermeneutics-and-the-formations-of-religious-identity-in-islam-hardback-9781512825947","title":"Beyond Sectarianism; Ambiguity, Hermeneutics, and the Formations of Religious Identity in Islam (Hardback) 9781512825947","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBeyond Sectarianism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAmbiguity, Hermeneutics, and the Formations of Religious Identity in Islam\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTehseen Thaver (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781512825947\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 May 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.53 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"At this study's core is al-Sharīf al-Raḍī's (d. 1015 CE) only surviving volume of his literary Qur'ānic exegesis \u003ci\u003eḤaqā'iq al-\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTa'wīl fī Mutashābih al-Tanzīl\u003c\/i\u003e in which he tackled thirty-seven ambiguous verses in the Qur'ān. Tehseen Thaver persuasively demonstrates that when read with a keen scholarly eye and against the backdrop of the 'general episteme that dominated the social and intellectual currents' of Buyid Baghdad in the tenth and eleventh centuries CE, al-Raḍī's work presents numerous and surprisingly compelling fruit...[G]roundbreaking...Clear and highly accessible, Thaver's prose excels in elucidating complicated theological and linguistic debates of a bygone era even to a lay reader.\" (Islamic Studies) \"One of the best works to appear in Islamic studies recently. Tehseen Thaver offers a profound, theoretically engaging study of medieval Islamic identity and hermeneutics. This is a must for any reader of Islamic intellectual history.\" (Walid Saleh, University of Toronto) \"Tehseen Thaver provides a timely corrective to our understanding of classical scholarship produced by Shi'i thinkers. Not only does her study of the hermeneutics of Radi speak broadly to debates in the study of the humanities, she also indicates important ways in which we cannot reduce a thinker to their theological affiliation nor can we set aside their personality. A critical intervention in the study of Islam.\" (Sajjad Rizvi, University of Exeter)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this groundbreaking book, Tehseen Thaver offers a fundamental reevaluation of how one should think about the relationship between the Qur'an, Shi'ism, and religious identity. \u003ci\u003eBeyond Sectarianism\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the literary Arabic Qur'an exegesis of the highly influential yet less studied poet, historian, and exegete al-Sharif al-Radi (d. 1015). Al-Radi's fascinating interpretations sought to resolve Qur'anic ambiguities or \u003ci\u003emutashabihat\u003c\/i\u003e. Through a philologically layered and historically attuned analysis, Thaver argues that al-Radi's efforts at resolving Qur'anic ambiguities were interlocked with the project of the canonization of the Arabic language.\u003cbr\u003e Although he was marked as a Shi'i scholar, the interpretive and political horizons that informed al-Radi's scholarly endeavors could not be reduced to predetermined templates of sectarian identity. Rather, Thaver argues, al-Radi was an active participant and beneficiary of critical intellectual currents and debates that animated the wider Muslim humanities during his life, especially on questions of language, poetry, and theology. Thaver thus leads her readers to reconsider their assumptions about the interaction of sectarian identity and scriptural interpretation in the study of Islam and religion.\u003cbr\u003e Though centered on the context of late tenth- and eleventh-century Baghdad under the Buyid dynasty, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Sectarianism\u003c\/i\u003e raises and addresses crucial questions of religious thought and identity with major ramifications for how we imagine the narrative of Islam and the place of sectarianism in it today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on Style\u003cbr\u003e List of Figures\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Thinking the Question of Imami Exegesis\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Competing Memories of al-Radi\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Buyid Baghdad and al-Radi's Hermeneutical Identity\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Ambiguity, Hermeneutics, and Power\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Politics of Language\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Theology of Language\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Is the Haqa'iq a Mu'tazili Shi'i Exegesis? Imami-Mu'tazili Relations\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Rethinking Shi'i Studies\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676620157208,"sku":"9781512825947","price":34.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/beyond-sectarianism-ambiguity-hermeneutics-and-the-formations-of-religious-identity-in-islam-hardback-9781512825947","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}