NAṢR ḤĀMID ABŪ ZAYD’S USE OF CLASSICAL THEOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ISLAMIC SOURCES IN HIS QURʾĀNIC HERMENEUTICS

• Authors: López-Farjeat Luis Xavier
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd is one of the most controversial contemporary Egyptian scholars in the Islamic intellectual context. One of his main concerns was to apply textual criticism to the interpretations of the Qurʾān. This is not an easy task considering the divine status of the prophetic message. Abū Zayd’s approach to the Arabic notion of interpretation leads to an innovative and polemical approach to the Islamic prophetic message. Although Abū Zayd resorts to contemporary hermeneutics, I argue that he draws on three intellectual branches of classical Islam in which textual criticism was already being applied and, thus, made the bridge to hermeneutics and contemporary semiotic and semantic theories easier. These three branches are firstly, the Muʿtazila, a rationalist theological school; secondly, the philosophical Sufism of Ibn ʿArabī; and, finally, Shiite Qurʾānic exegesis.

Keywords

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ABU ZAYD; ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY; QURAN; EGYPT

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 79
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 892 – 906

Contributors

author

López-Farjeat Luis Xavier

• Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Panamericana, Augusto Rodin 498, Col. Insurgentes Mixcoac, C.P. 03920 Benito Juárez, Mexico City, Mexico

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1140-2913

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2024.79.8.4