Philosophical Perspectives on Modern Qur'anic Exegesis - Key Paradigms and Concepts - Massimo Campanini

Philosophical Perspectives on Modern Qur'anic Exegesis - Key Paradigms and Concepts - Massimo Campanini

6: Literary Hermeneutics

Philosophical Perspectives on Modern Qur'anic Exegesis - Key Paradigms and Concepts - Massimo Campanini

Massimo Campanini [+-]
University of Trento
Massimo Campanini was born in Milan in 1954. He graduated in philosophy at the University of Milan in 1977 with a thesis on Giordano Bruno’s thought. Later he obtained a degree in Arabic at the Institute for the Middle and Far East of Milan in 1984. Lecturer in history and institutions of the Muslim world at the University of Urbino and of Arabic culture at the University of Milan; reader in History of Islamic countries at the Oriental University in Naples; presently, he is Associate professor of Islamic studies at the University of Trento. He published about 100 scientific articles and 30 books, a few of them translated in Spanish, Portuguese and Serbo-croatian. In English he published The Qur’an: The Basics 2nd edition (Routledge 2016), Introduction to Islamic Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press 2008) and The Qur’an: Modern Muslim Interpretations (Routledge 2011).

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In the footsteps of Muhammad Ahmad Khalafallah, this chapter analyses a number of famous Qur’anic stories (the prophet Joseph, Moses and al-Khidr, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba), to demonstrate the utility of finding a philosophical pattern connecting together apparently heterogeneous stories. Literary hermeneutics is one of the main methodological keys for reconstructing the meaning of a text and its history. The Holy Book of Islam appears to contain historical facts and narratives, but it essentially conveys its message through a complex axiological symbolism.

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Campanini, Massimo. 6: Literary Hermeneutics. Philosophical Perspectives on Modern Qur'anic Exegesis - Key Paradigms and Concepts. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 53-73 Oct 2016. ISBN 9781781792315. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=32123. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.32123. Oct 2016

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