Title: Nasr Hāmid Abū Zayd and the Quest for a Humanistic Hermeneutics of the Qur'ān
Abstract:This article offers a humanistic interpretation of the modern Arabic text Mafhūm al-nass: Dirāsa fī 'ulūm al-Qur'ān written by the Egyptian scholar-humanist Nasr Hāmid Abū Zayd. A close reading of Maf...This article offers a humanistic interpretation of the modern Arabic text Mafhūm al-nass: Dirāsa fī 'ulūm al-Qur'ān written by the Egyptian scholar-humanist Nasr Hāmid Abū Zayd. A close reading of Mafhūm al-nass in an extended conservation with many of his primary works reveals that his approach to the Qur'ān is a distinctively “humanistic hermeneutics,” a term applied to the art of interpreting the Qur'ān with a humanistic orientation. The hermeneutic act is considered humanistic in so far as it signifies a human-oriented interpretation of the Qur'ān. Not only does the human interpreter represent an invaluable form of agency in the hermeneutic act, but the Qur'ān itself is understood to contain human dimensions and to provide a space for humanistic inquiry.Read More
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-06-19
Language: en
Type: article
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