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9: The Translation of the Qur’ān as Hermeneutical Exercise


 
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1. Title Title of document 9: The Translation of the Qur’ān as Hermeneutical Exercise - Philosophical Perspectives on Modern Qur'anic Exegesis
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Massimo Campanini; University of Trento;
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Religion; Religious Studies; Philosophy; History
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) hermeneutics; Fakhr al-Din al-Razi; Nasr Abu Zayd; tawhid;Edmund Husserl; Martin Heidegger; The Qur'an
 
5. Subject Subject classification Islamic Studies
 
6. Description Abstract Translating is a highly hermeneutical activity. Translating is always interpreting. The problem is: When we are translating the Qur’an, are we “betraying” its meanings? Discussing the topic of the Qur’an’s translation is then a very difficult task. On the one hand, the Qur’an is not a normal literary text; and, on the other, Muslims do not accept the translation into another human language of the direct speech of God who spoke in Arabic. This chapter focuses on Nasr Abu Zayd’s, Fazlur Rahman’s and other commentators’ approach to understand how it is possible to convey to all human beings, who speak many languages, the meaning of a message originally expressed in Arabic. The problem of the Qur’an’s inimitability (i‘jaz) is crucial.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 01-Oct-2016
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/32126
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.32126
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Philosophical Perspectives on Modern Qur'anic Exegesis
 
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