MUSLIM COMMUNITY/UMMAH IN CHANGING SOCIETY. RE-CONTEXTUALIZATION OF THE QUR'AN IN POLITICAL CONTEXT

• Authors: Gokkir Necmettin
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The study aims to make a modest contribution to research into Muslim readings of the Qur'an in its changing social context. For this aim, the study explores the extent of the impact of different political and social concerns on the conceptual world of the Islam and shows the changes of theological attitude towards the issues in accordance with contemporary political values. In other words, the real purpose of the study is to show that the different political circumstances and conditions have affected the reception and the perception of the reader of the Qur'an. The main part of the research is devoted to a study on the reflections on religio-communal concepts of Islam, especially the ummah (community) in the past and present. This paper hopes to stay with the line of inquiry: 'What does the Qur'an mean today to the Muslims living under globalizing political values?' 'How can they usefully make a link between changing configurations of politics and the Qur'anic discourses?' 'How is the Qur'an explained by political concepts or in other words how is it politicized?'

Keywords

EN

CONTEXTUALISATION; MUSLIM COMMUNITY; POLITICAL INTERPRETATION; QUR'AN; UMMAH

Discipline

• THEOLOGY: THEOLOGY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
• Journal: Hemispheres. Studies on Cultures and Societies
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 24
• Pages: 29-40
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Gokkir Necmettin

• Necmettin Gokkir, Istanbul University, Theology Faculty, Baha Hasan Alemi Mah., Kavalali Sk., A Blok, Fatih/Istanbul, Turkey

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA080224