Tafsīr or Taʾwīl? The Shaykhī Contribution to the Qurʾānīc Tradition of Nineteenth Century Iran.
The study of Qurʾānīc exegesis in the Shaykhī school has been widely, albeit surprisingly, neglected in modern scholarship. It is surprising because there is hardly any aspect of Shaykhīsm that has remained intact after scholars have touched upon different dimensions of the school. Considering the Q...
| Publicado en: | Muslim World Vol. 113; no. 3; pp. 228 - 242 |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Artículo |
| Publicado: |
Wiley-Blackwell
Summer2023
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=172000360&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 172000360 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00274909 MUW jtl: Muslim World issn: 00274909 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Summer2023 vid: 113 iid: 3 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 172000360 10.1111/muwo.12468 ppf: 228 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 273KB tig: atl: Tafsīr or Taʾwīl? The Shaykhī Contribution to the Qurʾānīc Tradition of Nineteenth Century Iran. aug: au: Chamankhah Assistant Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies & Political Science, Leila affil: Thapar School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (TSLAS) at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (TIET), Patiala, India su: Qur'anic criticism Nineteenth century Arabic language Scholarly method Scholars Elitism Iran sug: subj: Iran Qur'anic criticism Nineteenth century Arabic language Scholarly method Scholars Elitism keyword: exegesis lettrism Qurʾān taʾwīl the Shaykhī exegetical school ab: The study of Qurʾānīc exegesis in the Shaykhī school has been widely, albeit surprisingly, neglected in modern scholarship. It is surprising because there is hardly any aspect of Shaykhīsm that has remained intact after scholars have touched upon different dimensions of the school. Considering the Qurʾān, its centrality in Islamic tradition and the different methods of reading it, what is commonly understood and accepted by the mainstream as exegesis (tafsīr) might not necessarily be a suitable label for what the Shaykhī leaders did in their very 'distinguished' reading and interpretation of the Book. I call it 'distinguished', because Shaykhī elitism remains far from any compromising effort that might reduce the complexity and convolution of an all‐celestial text into a literal interpretation. From a Shaykhī perspective, any such simplified challenge would not do justice to the deep and multiple levels (buṭūn) of meaning in the Qurʾān, which need an esoteric, and at times lettrist methodology to unveil divine revelation (tanzīl). Furthermore, every word needs to be understood in consideration of the akhbār of the imāms as well. Given this, the present paper will examine a number of key writings, delving into how the Shaykhīʿulemā have interpreted the Qurʾān from an esoteric perspective, and by so doing have left a legacy which has culminated in what I call 'the exegetical school of Kerman'. Pertinent to this is the language of the school.1 As the paper argues, the choice of Arabic as the language of tafsīr in a Persophone context was deliberate, and in fact should be understood in the light of the Shaykhī approach that assigns understanding the Qurʾān to only a skilled few. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Muslim World is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Muslim World holder: Wiley-Blackwell dt: @attributes: year: 2023 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|