Table of Contents

Foreword Preface Acknowledgments PART I: Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī: His Life and Thoughts 1. Introduction: Rational Progress and the Reception of a Modern Tafsīr 2. Background and Social Concerns 3. A Mufassir and Nature PART II: Inside and Outside of a Tafsīr 4. An Approach to Science in the Qurʾān 5. Europeans in a Twentieth-Century Tafsīr: A Different View 6. Post-Jawharism: Maurice Bucaille, the Qurʾān, and Science PART III: Reading the Qurʾān with Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī 7. 114 Sūras Final Thought Appendix Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī’s books and treatises Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Bibliography

About the Author

Majid Daneshgar teaches Islamic Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research interests pertain to the connection between Islamic intellectual and exegetical progress in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as well as Malay Islamic studies. His main volumes are: Islamic Studies Today: Essays in Honor of Andrew Rippin, co-edited with Walid A. Saleh (2016) and The Qur’ān in the Malay-Indonesian World: Context and Interpretation, co-edited with Peter G. Riddell and Andrew Rippin (Routledge 2016)

Reviews

Daneshgar’s scrupulous study of the life and thought of Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī is a substantial contribution to the field of Quranic studies which also sheds light on one of the significant aspects of the Islamic reform movement, i.e. its stance towards science in the nineteenth century. Mahmoud Pargoo, in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies