God's Word, Spoken or Otherwise

Sayyid Ahmad Khan's (1817-1898) Muslim Exegesis of the Bible
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46729-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Urdu, Band 45, 12 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 524 g

Reihe: The History of Christian-Muslim Relations

Set in British India soon after the Uprising of 1857, God’s Word, Spoken and Otherwise explores the controversial and ingenious ideas of one of South Asia’s most influential public thinkers, Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898). Bringing to light previously unpublished material from his exegetical commentaries on the Bible and Qur’an, this study explores the interplay of natural and prophetic revelation from an intertextual perspective. The book provides fresh insight into Sir Sayyid’s life and work, and underscores both the originality of his ideas, and also their continuity within a dynamic Muslim intellectual tradition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramsey, Charles M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Notes on Translation and Transliteration

Abbreviations

1 Introduction

1 Approaching the Texts

2 Approaching the Context

3 Studies on Sayyid Ahmad Khan

4 Outline of the Chapters

2 The Tabyin in Context

1 The Political Setting

2 The Intellectual Environment

3 Revelation Recorded

4 The British Intellectual Environment

5 Sayyid Ahmad’s Life and Works

6 Conclusion

3 On the Bible

1 What Is the Significance of the Title Tabyin al-kalam?

2 How Did Sayyid Ahmad Present His Commentaries on the Bible?

3 Rationale for a Muslim Reading of the Bible

4 Tahrif: The Greatest Obstacle to the Tabyin Project

5 Nasikh wa-mansukh

6 Tabyin Part 2

7 To Reconcile Scripture and Science

8 The Garden: What Did Transpire?

9 Conclusion to Genesis

10 Tabyin Part 3

11 The Person of Jesus Christ

12 The Words and the Text

13 The Counsels of Jesus

14 Tafsir al-Qur'an

15 Jesus’s Miraculous Birth

16 Jesus Speaks in Infancy

17 Jesus Raises the Dead

18 Jesus’s Heavenly Ascension

19 Conclusion

4 Prophecy: Rehearsed and Unrehearsed

1 To Know What One Knows

2 Experience as the Basis of Knowledge

3 Experiment as the Way to Knowledge

4 Knowledge for Salvation

5 The Prophetic Experience

6 Differentiating the Rehearsed and the Unrehearsed

7 The Inimitable Qur'an

8 The Qur'an as Text

9 Revelation Defined

10 Sources for the Adoption of the Taxonomy

11 Construction Applied to the Bible

12 Revelation Recorded

13 Revelation in the Bible

14 The New Testament Authors

15 Writings Other Than Gospels in the New Testament

16 Conclusion

5 The Coherence of Revelation

1 Introduction

2 Continuity and Originality

3 Scripturalist falsafa

4 Conclusion

6 Conclusion

1 How Did Sayyid Ahmad Conceptualize Prophetic Revelation in the Bible?

2 What Did Sayyid Ahmad Understand Himself to Be Doing in Tabyin?

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Charles M. Ramsey, Ph.D. (2015), University of Birmingham, is Fellow, Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University (USA) where he teaches courses in Islamic Studies and the History of South Asia. He has published many writings on Islam in South Asia, including South Asian Sufis (Continuum, 2012) and The Gospel According to Sayyid Ahmad Khan (Brill, 2020).