Muslim Identities - An Introduction to Islam Second Edition - Aaron W. Hughes
3. The Quran: The Foundation
Muslim Identities - An Introduction to Islam Second Edition - Aaron W. Hughes
Aaron W. Hughes [+]
University of Rochester
Aaron W. Hughes is the Dean’s Professor of the Humanities and the Philip S. Bernstein Professor in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester. His research and publications focus on both Jewish philosophy and Islamic Studies. He has authored numerous books, including Situating Islam: The Past and Future of an Academic Discipline (Equinox, 2007); Theorizing Islam: Disciplinary Deconstruction and Reconstruction (Equinox, 2012); Muslim Identities: An Introduction to Islam (Columbia, 2012); and Abrahamic Religions: On the Uses and Abuses of History (Oxford, 2012). He currently serves as the editor of the journal Method and Theory in the Study of Religion.
Description
This chapter is devoted to the Quran, the base text in Islam, the one from which all else derives, in one way or another. After a general overview, it gives the traditional Muslim account of its origins, followed by a more critical approach, and then—like the previous two chapters—consolidates the two accounts. It then provides the general themes of the Quran, before showing how it functions in Muslim life and in the later commentary tradition that grew up around it.