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School
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Summary
The Qur'an is the central text of Islam. Perceived as being as God¿s
unchangeable and final word, it has had a huge influence on the
development of Islamic thought, amongst others in theology, law, and
Sufism. This course provides an analytical overview of the origins of the
Qur'an, its relation to Jewish and Christian sources, its structure and
content, and approaches to its interpretation. Through the lecture of key
passages of the Qur'an and selected commentaries, the course
illustrates the significance of the text for Islamic thought and the
diversity of the interpretations it has generated.
Normal Year Taken
Year 4 Undergraduate
Course Level (PG/UG)
UG
Visiting Student
Availability
Available to all students
SCQF Credits
20
Credit Level (SCQF)
SCQF Level 10
Home Subject Area
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Other Subject Area
Course Organiser
Andreas Goerke
Course Secretary
Eleanor Birch
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Total contact
teaching hours
20
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by students
Pre-requisites
It is recommended that students have passed Introduction to Islam A
(IMES08023) OR Islamic History A: From the Origins of Islam to the Age
of Suleyman the Magnificent (IMES08035)
Co-requisites
Prohibited
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Visting Student Prerequisites
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at course level)
Proposer
Andreas Goerke
Default Mode of
Study
Assessment
Default delivery
period
Semester 2
Marking Scheme to
be employed
Common Marking Scheme - UG Honours Mark/Grade
Taught in Gaidhlig?
No
Course Type
Standard
Special Arrangements
Components of
Assessment
Class presentation and participation: 10%
1500-word literature review: 25%
3000-word essay: 65%
Exam Information
Syllabus
Syllabus
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1) Terminology, form and contents
2) History of the text, variant readings
3) Major topics in the Qur'an
4) Key suras and verses
5) Classical exegesis
6) Modern exegesis
7) Presentation of projects
8) The Qur'an and Islamic law
9) Controversial issues in the Qur'an: women, treatment of nonMuslims, capital punishments
10) The historical context - the relation of the Qur'an to Jewish and
Christian traditions
The students will present outlines of their projects and discuss them in
the seminar in the second half of the semester. They will also hand in
literature reviews discussing and assessing the relevant literature for
their projects. The feedback they receive will help them to improve and
finalise their major essays. They will also receive detailed written
feedback on their major essays.
Graduate Attributes
and Skills
Study Abroad
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Reading List
Reading Lists
Translations of the Qur'an:
* Arthur J. Arberry, The Koran Interpreted, London: Allen & Unwin,
1955.
* Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an: Translation and Commentary,
Jidda: Dar al-Qiblah for Islamic Literature, 1992.
* M. A. S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur'an: An English Translation with Parallel
Arabic Text, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
* Alan Jones, The Qur'an, Cambridge: Gibb Memorial Trust, 2007.
Introductions:
* Cook, Michael, The Koran: a very short introduction, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2000.
* Robinson, Neal, Discovering the Qur'an: A Contemporary Approach to
a Veiled Text, London: SCM Press, 1996.
* Watt, William Montgomery and Richard Bell, Introduction to the
Qur'an, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 1970.
Select Bibliography:
* 'Abd Allah, Ahmad Ali Muhammad, Variant readings of the Qur'an: a
critical study of their historical and linguistic origins, Herndon:
International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1995.
* Ayoub, Mahmoud, The Qur'an and its Interpreters, 2 vols. Albany,
State University of New York Press, 1984-92.
* A'zami, Muhammad Mustafa, The history of the Qur'anic text: from
revelation to compilation: a comparative study with the Old and New
Testaments, Leicester: UK Islamic Academy, 2003.
* Baljon, Johannes M. S., Modern Muslim Koran Interpretation (18801960), Leiden: Brill, 1968.
* Bar-Asher, Meir M., Scripture and Exegesis in Early Imami Shiism,
Leiden: Brill, 1999.
* Bauer, Karen (ed.), Aims, Methods and Contexts of Qur'anic Exegesis
(2nd/8th¿9th/15th c.), Oxford: Oxford University Press in association
with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2013.
* Beeston, A. F. L., Baidawi's Commentary on Surah 12 of the Qur¿an:
Text, Accompanied by an Interpretative Rendering and Notes, Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1963.
* Bewley, Aisha (tr.), Tafsir al-Qurtubi: Classical Commentary of the Holy
Qur'an, London: Dar al-Taqwa, 2003.
* ___ (tr.), Tafsir al-Jalalayn, London: Dar al-Taqwa, 2007.
* Calder, Norman. 'Tafsir from Tabari to Ibn Kathir: Problems in the
Description of a Genre, Illustrated with Reference to the Story of
Abraham', in: Gerald R. Hawting and Abdul-Kader A. Shareef (eds),
Approaches to the Qur'an, London: Routledge, 1993, pp. 101-40.
* ___, Jawid Mojaddedi and Andrew Rippin (eds), Classical Islam: A
Sourcebook of Religious Literature, 2nd ed., London: Routledge, 2013.
* Cooper, J. The Commentary of the Qur'an by Abu Ja'far Muhammad b.
Jarir al-Tabari: Being an Abridged Translation of Jami' al-bayan 'an ta'wil
ay al-Qur'an, with an Introduction and Notes by J. Cooper, W. F.
Madelung and A. Jones, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
* Fudge, Bruce, 'Qur'anic Exegesis in Medieval Islam and Modern
Orientalism', Die Welt des Islams 46 (2006), 115-47.
* Gätje, Helmut, The Qur'an and its Exegesis: Selected Texts with
Classical and Modern Muslim Interpretations, translated from the
German by Alford T. Welch, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.
* Geiger, Abraham: 'What did Muhammad borrow from Judaism', in Ibn
Warraq (ed.), On the Origins of the Koran, Amherst: Prometheus Books,
1998, 165-226.
* Gleave, Robert: 'Early Shi'i Hermeneutics. Some Exegetical Techniques
Attributed to the Shi'i Imams', in: Karen Bauer (ed.), Aims, Methods and
Contexts of Qur¿anic Exegesis (2nd/8th-9th/15th c.), Oxford 2013, 14172.
* Goldziher, Ignaz, Schools of Koranic Commentators, ed. and tr.
Wolfgang H. Behn, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006.
* Görke, Andreas and Johanna Pink (eds), Tafsir and Islamic Intellectual
History. Exploring the Boundaries of a Genre, Oxford: Oxford University
Press 2014.
* Griffith, Sidney: 'Christian Lore and the Arabic Qur'an. The Companions
of the Cave in Surat al-Kahf and in Syriac Christian Tradition', in: Gabriel
Said Reynolds (ed.): The Qur'an in its Historical Context, Abingdon und
New York 2008, 109-37.
* ___, The Bible in Arabic: The Scriptures of the 'People of the Book' in
the Language of Islam, Princeton: Princeton University Press 2013.
* Hamza, Feras (tr.), Tafsir al-Jalalayn, Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2008.
* ___ and Sajjad Rizvi, with Farhana Mayer, eds., An Anthology of
Qur'anic Commentaries, Volume I: On the Nature of the Divine, Oxford:
Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili
Studies, 2008.
* Ibn Warraq (ed.), The Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam¿s
Holy Book, Amherst: Prometheus, 1998.
* ___, What the Koran Really Says: Language, Text and Commentary,
Amherst: Prometheus, 2002.
* ___ (ed.), Which Koran? Variants, Manuscripts, and the Influence of
Pre-Islamic Poetry, Amherst: Prometheus, 2007.
* Izutsu, Toshihiko, God and Man in the Qur'an: Semantics of the
Qur¿anic Weltanschauung, Tokyo: Keio Institute of Cultural and
Linguistic Studies, 1964.
* Jansen, J. J. G., The Interpretation of the Koran in Modern Egypt,
Leiden: Brill, 1974.
* Jeffery, Arthur, Materials for the History of the Text of the Qur'an,
Leiden: Brill, 1937; repr. New York: AMS Press, 1975.
* Kinberg, Leah, 'Muhkamat and Mutashabihat (Koran 3/7): Implication
of a Koranic Pair of Terms in Medieval Exegesis', Arabica 35 (1988), 14371.
* Körner, Felix, Revisionist Koran Hermeneutics in Contemporary Turkish
University Theology: Rethinking Islam, Würzburg: Ergon, 2005.
* Madigan, Daniel, The Qur'an's Self-Image: Writing and Authority in
Islam¿s Scripture, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
* Mahmoud, Mohamed, 'To Beat or Not to Beat: On the Exegetical
Dilemmas Over Qur¿an 4:34', Journal of the American Oriental Society
126 (2006), 537-50.
* McAuliffe, Jane Dammen, Qur¿anic Christians: An Analysis of Classical
and Modern Exegesis, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
* Neuwirth, Angelika, Nicolai Sinai and Michael Marx, The Qur'an in
context: historical and literary investigations into the Qur'anic milieu,
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2010.
* Nöldeke, Theodor and Friedrich Schwally, Geschichte des Qorans, vol.
II: Die Sammlung des Qorans. Leipzig, Dieterich¿sche
Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1919.
* Pink, Johanna, 'Tradition and Ideology in Contemporary Sunnite
Qur'anic Exegesis. Qur'anic Commentaries from the Arab World, Turkey
and Indonesia and their Interpretation of Q 5:51', Die Welt des Islams 50
(2010), 3-59.
* ___, 'Tradition, Authority and Innovation in Contemporary Sunni tafsir:
Towards a Typology of Qur'an Commentaries from the Arab World,
Indonesia and Turkey', Journal of Qur'anic Studies 12 (2010), 56¿82.
* Reynolds, Gabriel Said, The Qur'an in its historical context, London:
Routledge 2008.
* Rippin, Andrew, 'The Present Status of Tafsir Studies', Muslim World
72 (1982), 224-38.
* ___ (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an, Malden: Blackwell,
2006.
* ___ (ed.), The Qur'an and its Interpretative Tradition, Aldershot:
Ashgate Variorum, 2001.
* ___ (ed.), Approaches to the History of the Interpretation of the
Qur'an, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
* ___, 'The Function of asbab al-nuzul in Qur'anic Exegesis', Bulletin of
the School of Oriental and African Studies 51 (1988), 1-20.
* Saeed, Abdullah, The Qur'an: An Introduction, London: Routledge
2008.
* ___, Interpreting the Qur'an: Towards a Contemporary Approach,
London: Routledge, 2006.
* Saleh, Walid A., The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition. The
Qur'an Commentary of al-Tha'labi (d. 427/1035), Leiden: Brill, 2004.
* ___, 'The Last of the Nishapuri School of Tafsir: Al-Wahidi (d.
468/1076) and his Significance in the History of Qur'anic Exegesis',
Journal of the American Oriental Society 126 (2006), 223-43.
* Wheeler, Brannon M., Prophets in the Quran. An Introduction to the
Quran and Muslim Exegesis, London, New York: Continuum, 2002.
* Witztum, Joseph, 'Joseph Among the Ishmaelites. Q 12 in Light of
Syriac Sources', in: Gabriel Said Reynolds (ed.), New Perspectives on the
Qur'an. The Qur'an in Its Historical Context 2, London: Routledge 2011,
425-48.
Course description
Learning outcomes
1. The students are able to use the scholarly terminology and know the most important concepts related
2. The students are able to find and critically assess scholarly literature on the Qur'an and its exegesis.
3. The students pursue a research question related to the Qur'an and its exegesis and present their argum
4. The students can demonstrate the significance of the Qur'an for key areas of Islamic thought.
5. The students understand the chronology of the Qur'anic text and can explain the significance of the ch
the Qur'an and Jewish and Christian Scriptures and they can explain the emergence and significance of
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