the study quran a new translation and commentary

The new name embodies an expanded scope for the Journal and reflects that the social sciences and humanities are interrelated and that Islamic engagement with one requires an examination of the other. In 2020, the journal was renamed from the previous American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences to reflect the evolution of the scholarly landscape and a global community of readers interested in a wider range of topics pertaining to Islam’s role in society. Įstablished in 1984, the American Journal of Islam and Society (AJIS) is a biannual (April and October), double-blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide. Of an overall vision of what it takes to understand the Quran correctly. The maps – each of these elements has been chosen by the editors as a part Manner of translating the text, the commentaries that are included, and even

From the choice of the editors and their approach to the Much of it and at almost every level it represents a construction of particular It is difficult to review such a work as a whole, because there is so Work, including introductions and maps, exceeds 2,000 pages. Scholars, and the project as a whole is grand in its scope.

Several of the essays are written by excellent Maps that reconstruct the position of important events such as the Battle ofīadr and the Conquest of Makkah. Qur’an and Sufism” and “Quranic Commentaries.” The project includes Society” and different aspects of the text’s interpretation, such as “The “The Islamic View of the Quran” to “Quranic Ethics, Human Rights, and These latter range from “How to Read the Quran” and Of the Qur’an, a synopsis/adaptation of certain Quran commentaries,Īnd a series of essays that seek to explain the sacred text’s place in Islamic It consists of a general introduction, a translation The Study Quran (hereafter SQ) is an impressive undertaking that took several

The study quran a new translation and commentary