A Review of Contemporary Arab Scholarship on the Use of Isrāʾīlīāt for Interpreting the Qurʾan

The Qur’an and Old and New Testaments have in common some twenty prophetic figures. As a text, the Qur’an engages with members of these earlier scriptural communities both in its direct address to ‘Benī Isrāʾīl’ (the Children of Israel) and in the way it recounts the stories of their prophets. For...

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Autor principal:	Kareem Rosshandler
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Publicado:	International Institute of Islamic Thought 2019
Materias:	Prophets in the Qur'an Isrāʾīlīāt Ka‘ab bin al-Ahbar ‘Abdullah bin Salam Wahb ibn Munabah Old Testament Islam BP1-253
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:52fcd51e83cf4d028aaf22dfb2d290032021-12-02T17:26:26ZA Review of Contemporary Arab Scholarship on the Use of Isrāʾīlīāt for Interpreting the Qurʾan10.35632/ajis.v36i2.2002690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/52fcd51e83cf4d028aaf22dfb2d290032019-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/200https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 The Qur’an and Old and New Testaments have in common some twenty prophetic figures. As a text, the Qur’an engages with members of these earlier scriptural communities both in its direct address to ‘Benī Isrāʾīl’ (the Children of Israel) and in the way it recounts the stories of their prophets. For their part, these earlier scriptures tend to present their accounts of these prophets in more detail than the Qur’an. As such, early Muslims would often consult Jewish and Christian converts to Islam for elucidation of the Qur’an’s core presentation. From this narration process emerged an exegetical genre called Isrāʾīlīāt. While long established in Muslim tradition, this exegetical genre has been a source of serious contention between scholars throughout the ages. Surveying almost a dozen works produced by the Arabic-speaking academy, this paper explores contemporary Arab scholarship on the use of Isrāʾīlīāt for interpreting the Qurʾan. It focuses on scholars’ attitudes towards this exegetical genre and what – if any – role they see it having in interpreting the Qurʾan. Kareem RosshandlerInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleProphets in the Qur'anIsrāʾīlīātKa‘ab bin al-Ahbar‘Abdullah bin SalamWahb ibn MunabahOld TestamentIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 36, Iss 2 (2019)
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description	The Qur’an and Old and New Testaments have in common some twenty prophetic figures. As a text, the Qur’an engages with members of these earlier scriptural communities both in its direct address to ‘Benī Isrāʾīl’ (the Children of Israel) and in the way it recounts the stories of their prophets. For their part, these earlier scriptures tend to present their accounts of these prophets in more detail than the Qur’an. As such, early Muslims would often consult Jewish and Christian converts to Islam for elucidation of the Qur’an’s core presentation. From this narration process emerged an exegetical genre called Isrāʾīlīāt. While long established in Muslim tradition, this exegetical genre has been a source of serious contention between scholars throughout the ages. Surveying almost a dozen works produced by the Arabic-speaking academy, this paper explores contemporary Arab scholarship on the use of Isrāʾīlīāt for interpreting the Qurʾan. It focuses on scholars’ attitudes towards this exegetical genre and what – if any – role they see it having in interpreting the Qurʾan.
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title	A Review of Contemporary Arab Scholarship on the Use of Isrāʾīlīāt for Interpreting the Qurʾan
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A Review of Contemporary Arab Scholarship on the Use of Isrāʾīlīāt for Interpreting the Qurʾan

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