Humanities and Social Sciences Colloquium - Walid Saleh
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| When |
Jul 15, 2019
from 11:15 AM to 12:30 PM |
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| Where | FRIAS, Albertstr. 19, seminar room |
| Contact Name | Verena Schröter |
| Attendees |
Universitätsoffen / open to university members |
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The Story of a book: The Qur’an Commentary tradition through the fate of one book
The most important Qur’an commentary in the history of Islamic intellectual history remains shrouded in mystery. When a Muslim scholar presented the story of this work, he claimed that it was celebrated from the day it was written. A closer look at the archive and reception reveals a far more complicated (and interesting story).
In this talk I will outline why this problem – reception history, is fundamental to understand current intellectual development. Historical research remains our only method to disentangle the conflicting narratives of influence and orthodoxy.
The work – Anwar al-Tanzil – was by the 19th century the universal work that was used to understand the Qur’an. Soon however, the rise of a new mode of hermeneutics displaced it, but also removed the urgency to investigate its history.
This talk is the result of a decade of engagement with this story and I now am able to chart the story of this work in such a way that we can locate how and when it rose to dominance and how and where it lost its position.
