This dissertation investigates the life and works of Abu al-Qasim `Abd al-Karim al-Qushayri (d. 465/1072). While the majority of western studies of al-Qushayri have concentrated almost exclusively on his Sufi legacy and the Risala , his treatise on Sufism, the present study make…
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This dissertation focuses on one of the most popular medieval Muslim figures in modern times, Ibn Kathir. I argue that Ibn Kathir's work reflects a critical theological struggle in the history of Islam between those who emphasized the original sources of the Qur'an and prophetic…
During the last fourteen centuries of Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir ), a few broad methodological trends can be discerned. From the earliest commentaries attributed to the companions of the Prophet to the works of contemporary modernists, commentators have relied almost exclusively …
This thesis is an attempt to analyze and compare the methods of exegesis of `Abduh and Rid[dotbelow]a. The analysis focuses on their works of Qur'anic exegesis, especially their joint project Tafsir al-Manar . Their school of exegesis and principles of exegesis are a reflection …
This dissertation analyzes the Sara'ir al-nut[dotbelow]aqa' (The Secrets of the Speaker-Prophets), a work ascribed to Ja'far b. Mans[dotbelow]ur al-Yaman (d. ca. 960), one of the earliest Isma'ili-Fat[dotbelow]imid missionaries whose work is extant. Ja'far chose unusual objects …
This is a study of Jalal al-Din al-Suyut[dotbelow]i's al-Durr al-manthur fi-l-tafsir bi-l-ma'thur (The scattered pearls of tradition-based exegesis), hereinafter al-Durr . In the present study, the distinctiveness of al-Durr becomes evident in comparison with the tafsirs of al-T…
The Qur'an has always been a medium through and upon which Islam and the Muslim faith are structured and built. It mediates the relationship between Muslims and God. Despite its alleged divine origin, the Qur'an as a scriptural and textual reality remains to be understood by Mus…
The aim of my research is to understand how canon, tradition, societal norms, and circumstance influence Qur'anic interpretation. I do this by examining clerical exegeses (tafsir , pl. tafasir ) of three key verses in the Qur'an which describe the nature of women and the relatio…
Using a multidisciplinary methodology, this dissertation presents a theology for a Judaism that men and women recreate and renew together as equals. According to progressive Judaisms, Jews reshape Judaism in conversation with social and historical contexts. A consistent historic…
With the collaborative works of Yair Zakovitch and Avigdor Shinan as its methodological model, this dissertation presents the history of Jewish exegesis on Judges 3:12-30 (Ehud and Eglon) as discerned from the Bible, the Old Versions and Ancient Jewish Literature. This study is …
The centrality of II Corinthians 3:7–18 in the Christian imagination first emerged in 2nd century exegetical debates concerning the inspirational status of Hebrew Scriptures. Arguments marshaled by Irenaeus and Tertullian affirmed that the whole Old Testament was to be considere…
Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian exegetes of late antiquity operated within an identifiable interpretive tradition that had its roots in the earliest recorded theological criticisms of the Homeric epic tradition, criticisms which were to have far-reaching and decisive influenc…
The story of Noah's drunkenness in Gen. 9:20-25 is ambiguous, allowing for multiple interpretations, including the possibility that Ham sexually violated Noah's wife. Gen. 19:30-38 interprets Gen. 9:20-25 as maternal incest, presenting Lot's fathering of Moab and Ammon by his da…
