Table of Contents

I: THE FORMATION OF BOUNDARIES: EARLY EVOLUTION OF THE GENRE; II: DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES AND THEIR PERMEATION: THE PLACE OF TAFSIR IN ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIP; III: BOUNDARIES OF DOGMA AND THEOLOGY: THE EXPRESSION OF IDEAS THROUGH TAFSIR; IV: REASSESSING CONVENTIONAL BOUNDARIES: CHRONOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, MEDIA AND AUTHORSHIP; V: AN EXPANSION OF BOUNDARIES: THE TAFSIR TRADITION IN MODERN TIMES

About the Author

Andreas Görke is Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He earned his Dr. phil. from the University of Hamburg in 2001 and his Habilitation from the University of Basel in 2010. He has worked as lecturer and researcher at the Universities of Hamburg and Basel, the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Freie Universität Berlin, and the University of Kiel, and served as acting professor for early and classical Islam at the University of Hamburg. His research interests include early Islamic history and historiography, the life of the Prophet Muhammad, Koran and Koranic exegesis, Hadith, Islamic law, the transmission of Arabic manuscripts, Islam in its late antique environment and the impact of modernity on Muslim thought. Johanna Pink is Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She obtained her doctorate from the University of Bonn in 2002 and has since worked as a lecturer, researcher and visiting professor at both the University of Tübingen and the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests include Muslim exegesis and translation of the Qur'an, the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims, and contemporary developments in Islamic law and thought. She has published books and articles on contemporary Sunni tafsīr, the status of non-Muslim minorities in Egypt, Muslim mass consumption and internet use, and various modern theological and legal debates.

Reviews

[T]his edited volume is very valuable. ... it contains important contributions of a high standard that pave the way for future research in the field. Moreover, it poses the right questions on the nature of the genre and the analytical tools needed to study it.
*Pieter Coppens, Journal of Qur'anic Studies*