Speaking Qur'an (eBook)

An American Scripture

Timur R. Yuskaev (Autor)

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2017
192 Seiten
University of South Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-61117-795-4 (ISBN)

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An exploration of how Muslims in the U.S. have interpreted the Qur'an in ways that make it speak to their American realities

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An exploration of how Muslims in the United States have interpreted the Qur'an in ways that make it speak to their American realities

In Speaking Qur'an: An American Scripture, Timur R. Yuskaev examines how Muslim Americans have been participating in their country's cultural, social, religious, and political life. Essential to this process, he shows, is how the Qur'an has become an evermore deeply American text that speaks to central issues in the lives of American Muslims through the spoken-word interpretations of Muslim preachers, scholars,and activists.

Yuskaev illustrates this process with four major case studies that highlight dialogues between American Muslim public intellectuals and their audiences. First, through an examination of the work of Fazlur Rahman, he addresses the question of how the premodern Qur'an is translated across time into modern, American settings. Next the author contemplates the application of contemporary concepts of gender to renditions of the Qur'an alongside Amina Wadud's American Muslim discourses on justice.Then he demonstrates how the Qur'an becomes a text of redemption in W. D. Mohammed's oral interpretation of the Qur'an as speaking directly to the African American experience. Finally he shows how, before and after 9/11, Hamza Yusuf invoked the Qur'an as a guide to the political life of American Muslims.

Set within the rapidly transforming contexts of the last half century, and central to the volume, are the issues of cultural translation and embodiment of sacred texts that Yuskaev explores by focusing on the Qur'an as a spoken scripture. The process of the Qur'an becoming an American sacred text, he argues, is ongoing. It comes to life when the Qur'an is spoken and embodied by its American faithful.

Autor

Timur R. Yuskaev is associate professor of contemporary Islam at Hartford Seminary, where he coedits the Muslim World journal and directs programs training American Muslim religious professionals, chaplains, and imams. He holds a Ph.D. in religious studies with specialization in Islamic studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.10.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Comparative Religion
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Comparative Religion
• Verlagsort: Columbia
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: African American • Ahmadiyya • al-Suyuti • Al-Zamakhshari • Amina Wadud • Dialogues • Exegesis • Fakhr al-Din • Fakhr al-Din al-Razi • Farid Esack • Fazlur Rahman • Feisal Abdul Rauf • Gender • Hafez • Hamza Yusuf • Mosque • Muhammad • Muhammad Iqbal • Murabit al-Hajj • Muslim • Muslim Americans • Naskh (tafsir) • Qur’an • Quran • Religious Studies • Sermon • taqwa • Warith Deen Mohammed
• ISBN-10: 1-61117-795-2 / 1611177952
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61117-795-4 / 9781611177954