Approaches to the Qur'an in Contemporary Iran
Edited by Alessandro Cancian
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Note on Transliteration, Conventions and Abbreviations
Introduction
Section I: Power, Authority and Exegesis
1:The Rational-analytical tafsīr in modern Iran: The influence of the Uṣūlī School of Jurisprudence on the Interpretation of the Qur'an, Seyfeddin Kara
2:Striving Beyond the Balance (al-mīzān): Spiritual Practice and the Qur'an in the Ṭabāṭabā'ī ṭarīqa, Sajjad Rizvi
3:Privileging the Qur'an: Divorce and the Hermeneutics of Ayatollah Ṣāniī, Liyakat Takim
4:Qur'anic Sanction and the Semiotics of Sovereignty in Contemporary Iran, Neguin Yavari
5:The Limits of a 'Fixed' Qur'an: The Iranian Religious Intellectual Movement Pushes Beyond the Historical Contextualization Method, Banafsheh Madaninejad
6:Divine Inspiration and Mystical Experience: Abdolkarim Soroush's Theory of Qur'anic Revelation: A Historical-Philosophical Appraisal, Yaser Mirdamadi
Section II: Alternative Approaches: Between Marginality and Legitimacy
7:A Sufi Defence of the Qur'an: Ḥusayn 'Alī Shāh's Rebuttal of Henry Martyn and Sufism in Early Nineteenth-Century Iran, Reza Tabandeh
8:Abrogation and Falsification of Scripture according to Shi'i Authors between Iraq and Iran (19th-20th Centuries), Rainer Brunner
9:Speaking the Secrets of Sanctity in the Tafsīr of Ṣafī 'Alī Shāh, Nicholas Boylston
10:Shi'i Sufism and Qur'anic Exegesis Early Modern Iran: Sulṭān 'Alī Shāh Gunābādī and his Bayān al-sa'āda, Alessandro Cancian
11:In the Company of the Qur'an by Muḥyī al-Dīn Ilāhī Ghomshei, Leonard Lewisohn
Section III: The Arts, Material Culture and Everyday Life
12:Rediscovering a Contemporary Illustrated Qur'an: Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi's Illustrations of Jean Grosjean's Translation (1972), Alice Bombardier
13:Women, Qur'an and the Power of Calligraphy in Contemporary Iran, Anna Vanzan
14:The Divine Word on the Screen: Imaging the Qur'an in Iranian Cinema, Nacim Pak-Shiraz
15:qunūt Verses from Inside and Outside of the Qur'an: Sources of Variability in the Performance of Namāz, Niloofar Haeri
16:The Qur'an as an Efficacious Text: Contemporary Iranian Twelver Shi'i Women and the Oral Qur'an as Living Text, Ingvild Flaskerud
17:The Qur'an as an Aesthetical Model in Music? The Case of 20th-Century Iran, Giovanni De Zorzi
Bibliography
General Index