Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī's Kitāb al-Īmāʾ
by Gregor Schwarb أغريغور شوارب גריגור שוורב
Published in:
גנזי קדם (Ginzei Qedem: Genizah Research Annual) 2 (2006), pp. 61*–105*
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Reconstruction and presentation of the most important Karaite theological-legal treatise of the late 5th/11th century.... more
Reconstruction and presentation of the most important Karaite theological-legal treatise of the late 5th/11th century.
The introduction of Aristotelian Syllogistics into uṣūl al-fiqh.
The reception of al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā among the Karaites.
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by Gregor Schwarb أغريغور شوارب גריגור שוורב
published in:
A WORD FITLY SPOKEN: Studies in Mediaeval Exegesis of the Hebrew Bible and the Qur’ān presented to Haggai Ben-Shammai [דבר דבור על אופניו: מחקרים בפרשנות המקרא והקראן בימי הביניים מוגשים לחגי בן-שמאי], eds. Meir M. Bar-Asher, Simon Hopkins, Sarah Stroumsa and Bruno Chiesa, Jerusalem: The Ben-Zvi Institute for the History of Jewish Communities in the East, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007, pp. 111*–156*. [in English]
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This article will be reprinted in M. Shah (ed.), Tafsir: Interpreting the Qurʾān (Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies), Volume II: Tafsir: Theory and Constructs, Part 3: Procedural and Conceptual Devices (article no. 18), London & New York: Routledge 2012.
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This article draws the attention of historians of scriptural exegesis to the relevance of uṣūl al-fiqh — both as a... more This article draws the attention of historians of scriptural exegesis to the relevance of uṣūl al-fiqh — both as a literary genre and as a discipline of the religious sciences — to an understanding of the semiotic foundations and the hermeneutic discourse of scriptural commentaries (uṣūl al-tafsīr) in mediaeval Judaism and Islam. What are the means through which meaning is produced, what are the conditions to be met for the possibility of their understanding? We find the most systematic and exhaustive discussions on these and related questions not in the commentaries themselves but in compositions on uṣūl al-fiqh.

