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Exordium to Coherence in the Qur'an

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Exordium to Coherence in the Qur'an

Hamid al-Din Farahi (India, died 1930) contests the received viewpoint that the text of the Holy Qurâ€™an can be understood by treating each surah and verse independently and without tracing the thematic and structural coherence of the holy text. He proposes that each surah of the Qurâ€™an deals with a specific central theme and the book as a whole is thematically structured. Through this approach, he establishes that the Qurâ€™an is the only authority for deciding on its interpretation; all other resources are subservient to it. Thus the interpretative roles of the hadith literature, the opinions of the Companions and their successors, the tafsir literature and the narratives regarding the occasions of revelation â€“ all are revisited by him, to show that they do not â€“ and cannot â€“override the text of the Qurâ€™an.
This translation of Farahiâ€™s introductory prologues to the unfinished commentary on the Qurâ€™an, written originally in Arabic, will show how Farahi seeks to change our approach to the Qurâ€™anic tafsir once and forever.

Tariq Mahmood Hashmi is Assistant Editor, Research and Academics Department, al-Mawrid.

Country	USA
Author	Hamid al-Din Farahi
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Al-Mawrid
Manufacturer	Al-Mawrid
NumberOfPages	112
PublicationDate	2013-01-08
Publisher	Al-Mawrid
ReleaseDate	2013-01-08
Studio	Al-Mawrid

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