{"title":"Islam in the West","authors":"Vanessa Katakalos","doi":"10.55831/ajis.v7i2.501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55831/ajis.v7i2.501","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":178428,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Islamic Studies","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132602376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Obedience to ‘Political Authority’ (Ulū Al-Amr)","authors":"O. Dar","doi":"10.55831/ajis.v7i1.469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55831/ajis.v7i1.469","url":null,"abstract":"The notion of ulū al-amr in Islamic thought emerges from an understanding of the Qur’ān 4:59, which serves as the cornerstone of the entire religious, social and political structure of Islam. The verse enables us to categorise the āmir (leader) into three categories: a) Allāh, b) al-Rasūl and c) ulū al-amr. The focus here is on ulū al-amr, which is interpreted differently by exegetes. Historically, the verse has been a rich source of debates and numerous elucidations. Ulū al-amr is used to refer to religious scholars as well as political authorities. For some exegetes, their obedience is limited while others hold the view they deserve unquestioning obedience. In the context of such contestations and interpretations, this article discusses some of the pre-modern exegetical discourses surrounding ulū al-amr, compares them with two modern South Asian Urdu tafsīr, Muhammad Shafiʿ’s (d. 1976) Maʿārif al-Qur’ān and Sayyid Abul A‘la Mawdūdī’s (d. 1979) Tafhīm al-Qur’ān, and dwells on the implications of the evolutionary transformations that emerged. In doing so, it addresses some major issues, including the extent to which tafsīr literature has been influenced by different theological traditions, political and sectarian interests and differing interpretations in some cases, mainly pertaining to historical and linguistic issues.","PeriodicalId":178428,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Islamic Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132547471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inscribing Persian in the Arabic Cosmopolis","authors":"M. Daneshgar, Sajjad Rizvi","doi":"10.55831/ajis.v7i1.461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55831/ajis.v7i1.461","url":null,"abstract":"Scholarly discourse on the Persianate tends to focus on the influence of Persian in Iran and further east, and often occludes the way in which the Persian language is inflected and present in the Arabic cosmopolis further west. Similarly, the formation of ‘Islamic classics’ and scholarly genres including exegesis tends to ignore the role of Persian works (and texts produced in a Persianate context). Through a case study of Qur’ānic exegesis in Persian and its reception west of Iran, we demonstrate how Persian is inscribed into the Arabic cosmopolis such that the development of post-classical exegesis should place these works alongside the major Arabic classics of al-Ṭabarī, al-Thaʿlabī and al-Basīṭ; in effect, we contend the study of Qur’ānic exegesis cannot ignore the study of Persian exegesis. Through examining rare manuscripts, we show how scholars read, copied and promoted Persian tafsir in Arabophone contexts. Not only does this study follow up on and test some earlier scholarly works dealing with the circulation of Persian translations of the Qur’ān and its commentaries as well as the scholarly impact of the Persians further west, it indicates the contribution of Persian exegesis to a normative understanding of the Islamic exegetical traditions at the heart of the madrasa. ","PeriodicalId":178428,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Islamic Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116969091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diyanet Qur’ān Commentary Kur’an Yolu (Path of the Qur’ān)","authors":"Hakan Çoruh","doi":"10.55831/ajis.v7i1.463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55831/ajis.v7i1.463","url":null,"abstract":"Various Muslim commentators have contributed to Qur’ānic exegesis (tafsīr) from the Eastern to the Western regions of the Muslim world. Besides the Middle East, other regions were also influential in the literature and scholarship of tafsīr, such as Khorasan and Transoxiana. Another example is Istanbul, the libraries of which hold examples of most of the surviving tafsīr works and super-commentaries. We do not have an extensive body of scholarship on tafsīr knowledge/production in other parts of the Muslim world in English as such studies are of particular significance for the full history of tafsīr. For this reason, this article focuses on tafsīr production in modern Turkey with reference to the Diyanet (the Turkish Presidency for Religious Affairs) Qur’ān commentary Kur’an Yolu (Path of the Qur’ān). First, the article provides a brief overview of tafsīr production and culture in the Ottoman period (1299–1922) and in the period of the Republic of Turkey (since 1923) to contextualise the Diyanet commentary. Then, it analyses the Diyanet Qur’ān commentary Kur’an Yolu as official/institutional tafsīr, its major characteristics and methodology. A particular focus is devoted to the commentary’s Introduction (pp. 13-51). The article holds the view that, while the Qur’ān commentary Kur’an Yolu follows the classical mainstream Sunni framework and paradigm, it includes innovative perspectives, selections of alternative options along with critical engagement with the classical tafsīr and Islamic scholarship.","PeriodicalId":178428,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Islamic Studies","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131335975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mullā Jīwan’s Methodology in His Qurʾān Commentary Al-Tafsīrāt Al-Aḥmadiyyah","authors":"Kamil Zia Uddin","doi":"10.55831/ajis.v7i1.459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55831/ajis.v7i1.459","url":null,"abstract":"This article outlines the Ḥanafī subcontinent contribution to the field of tafsīr. It provides a synopsis of Ḥanafī books on the genre of aḥkām al-Qurʾān (legal verses of the Qurʾān). Aḥmad b. Abū Sa‘īd al-Junfūrī (d. 1717), more commonly known as Mullā Jīwan, was an Indian jurist and celebrated teacher of the Mughal Emperor Alamgir (d. 1707). Given he was a teacher of a Mughal emperor, his writings potentially had the capability to practice and influence fiqh at state level. In his introduction, Mullā Jīwan states three types of derivations from the selected āyāt: juristic rulings (aḥkām fiqhiyyah), Islamic jurisprudence (uṣūl al-fiqh) and issues of creed (masāʾil al-‘ʿaqīdah al-sunniyyah). I use examples of āyāt for each derivation to highlight and identify the manhaj (methodology) of his tafsīr. Other sciences are mentioned in his tafsīr—like naḥw (grammar) or taṣawwuf (Sufism)—but they are not the salient objectives mentioned in his introduction nor are they as common as the abovementioned points. Mullā Jīwan is most known for his commentary on Abū al-Barakāt al-Nasafī’s (d. 1311) text on jurisprudence, al-Manār, titled Nūr al-anwār sharḥ al-manār (Light of Lights, commentary on the Enlighted). Prior to writing that commentary, Mullā Jīwan wrote a juristic exegesis of the Qurʾān titled al-Tafsīrāt al-Aḥmadiyyah fī bayān al-āyāt al-sharʿiyyah (Aḥmad’s Exegeses in Explaining Legal verses). It was the first complete juristic exegesis written in the subcontinent. In this tafsīr, he presents each masʾalah (case study) based on the Ḥanafī/Māturīdī school of thought. ","PeriodicalId":178428,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Islamic Studies","volume":"28 15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116511763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First Vernacular Tafsir in the Caucasus","authors":"Mykhaylo Yakubovych","doi":"10.55831/ajis.v7i1.457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55831/ajis.v7i1.457","url":null,"abstract":"The Azerbaijani language (also referred as Azerbaijani Turkish) is one of the most important languages of Islam in the South Caucasus region. Nowadays spoken by at least 25 million people in the Republic of Azerbaijan, Iran and Georgia, usage of Azerbaijani as a vernacular language has played an important role in the rise of Islamic reformism in the area during the first decade of the 20th century and, almost a century later, in the Islamic revival that has taken place since 1991. At the turn of the 20th century, two vernacular Qur’ān commentaries by Azerbaijani scholars, Kashf al-Ḥaqāʾiq ʿan Nukat al-Ayāt wa’l-Daqāʾīq (1904–1905) by Mīr Muḥammad Karīm al-Bākuwī and al-Bayān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān (1908) by Muḥammad Mawlā Zādah al-Shakawī, opened new avenues in the debate about the translatability and interpretation of the Qur’ān in non-Arabic discourses, as well as the status of those sources in local Islamic education. This study argues, despite the many dramatic changes brought about by atheist Soviet policies between 1920 and 1991, the impact of these two early 20th century tafsir on modern-day Azerbaijani Islamic education and scholarship has remained substantial, and their influence can be seen in everything from Qur’ānic studies courses in the current curricula of theological colleges to the most recent translations of the Qur’ān in Azerbaijan and beyond.","PeriodicalId":178428,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Islamic Studies","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128499450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tarjumān Al-Qur’ān and Tafhīm Al-Qur’ān","authors":"Muhammad Yaseen Gada","doi":"10.55831/ajis.v7i1.467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55831/ajis.v7i1.467","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the underlying factors that prompted the production of influential Qur’ān exegesis in the Indian subcontinent. Both exegeses continue to influence later exegesis, since Mawlānā Āzād (Tarjumān al-Qur’ān) and Mawlānā Mawdūdī (Tafhīm al-Qur’ān) were contemporary influential Muslim intellectuals, prolific writers and skilled journalists. However, both have different perspectives especially regarding the political matters that influenced their tafsīr writings. To achieve the mentioned goals, the article employs comparative methodology coupled with historical analysis. To do so, the paper investigates chapters 9 (Sūrah al-Tawbah) and 18 (Sūrah Al-Kahf) of the Qur’ān. Moreover, it explores and identifies their adherence to ḥadīth and their stand on fiqh while interpreting the Qur’ān. While going through a meticulous study of these exegeses, it becomes clear that Mawlānā Mawdūdī’s Tafhīm al-Qur’ān bears many imprints and influences of Tarjumān al-Qur’ān. Moreover, Tafhīm al-Qur’ān views the Qur’ān through a political prism in which Tarjumān al-Qur’ān has little interest. What makes Tafhīm al-Qur’ān influential in modern Urdu tafāsīr is that it is written in simple and easy to understand Urdu language. Regarding the ḥadīth literature and reliance on traditional fiqh sources, Tafhīm al-Qur’ān relies on them more often compared with Tarjumān al-Qur’ān.Though many have written on these two great exegeses on various fronts, no study has been done on Mawlānā Āzād’s influence on Mawdūdī’s exegesis. Moreover, a comparative study of this kind explores many similarities between them. Living in the same socio-political environment, but having different perspectives with regard to Qur’ānic exegesis, also reveals different human tendencies when approaching the Qur’ān.","PeriodicalId":178428,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Islamic Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126021626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tafsir in the Non-Arab Muslim World – II","authors":"Hakan Çoruh, P. Riddell","doi":"10.55831/ajis.v7i1.465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55831/ajis.v7i1.465","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This is the second special issue of the Australian Journal of Islamic Studies that focuses on the topic of Qur’ānic exegesis or tafsīr al-Qur’ān in the non-Arab world. While the first special issue (Volume 6, Issue 4, 2021) mainly analysed Qur’ānic exegesis in Southeast Asia and Africa, this second issue extends its focus from Western Islamic lands to the Eastern parts (Ottoman to the Indian subcontinent), particularly Qur’ānic exegesis in Persian and its reception west of Iran, tafsīr in the Ottoman and Turkish Republic periods, Azerbaijani Qur’ān commentaries, and tafsīr in the Indian subcontinent.\u0000","PeriodicalId":178428,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Islamic Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134058076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Ayn Al-A‘yān","authors":"Halim Calis","doi":"10.55831/ajis.v7i1.405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55831/ajis.v7i1.405","url":null,"abstract":"Muḥammad ibn Ḥamza Shams al-Dīn al-Fanārī (1350-1431) was one of the prominent early Ottoman scholars. After years of education in Anatolia and Egypt, he served as a mudarris and a judge in the Ottoman lands and was consequently promoted to the post of Shaykh al-Islām, the highest office in the Ottoman religious bureaucracy. ‘Ayn al-a‘yān, Fanārī's partial commentary on the opening chapter of the Qur’an, is an outstanding Tafsīr work, in which Fanārī presents his exegetical theory. In his theory, the Qur’anic text is assessed as having multi-layered meanings, including an esoteric sense, and as being open to endless attempts at interpretation. Fanārī connects the multiple layers of Qur’anic meaning with the hierarchical structure of existence theorised in Akbarī metaphysics. Since the text encodes the secrets of existence at the level of esoteric sense, the task of the commentator involves spiritual experience beyond intellectual inquiry. Therefore, in Fanārī’s commentary, the Qur’anic text functions as an epistemological medium that connects Akbarī ontology to spirituality. The appropriation of Akbarī hermeneutics led Fanārī to question the nature and the authority of Tafsīr and to re-define the Qur’an and exegesis of the Qur’an.","PeriodicalId":178428,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Islamic Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123145184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tafsir in the Non-Arab Muslim World – I","authors":"P. Riddell, Hakan Çoruh","doi":"10.55831/ajis.v6i4.427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55831/ajis.v6i4.427","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000The six articles in this issue of AJIS demonstrate the richness of resources in tafsīr al- Qur’ān produced outside the Arabic-speaking world. These articles provide a snapshot of the rapidly developing interest in this field of studies in Southeast Asia and Africa. Further exciting glimpses into non-Arab world research into Qur’ānic exegesis will be on display in the next issue of AJIS, focusing on scholarship from India, Iran, Turkey and central Caucasus. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":178428,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Islamic Studies","volume":"240 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131876113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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