Western Quranic studies: concept, history, and trends

The price includes tax Cover First edition Hartmut Pubsine _ Marco Schuler _ Devin Stewart _ Fred Doner Translation: Badr Al Hakimi 192 pages 17*24 The history of studying the Quran in the West has undergone radical developments from one historical period to another. And this development did not only occur at the level of understanding its contents and researching its issues, but also at the level of its methodologies and orientations. And these developments — as some might think — did not occur in isolation from the developments happening in other scientific fields, such as biblical studies or exact sciences or social sciences or humanities, but reached in some forms the core of the Quranic lesson, and influenced its interpretation and objectives. However, the movement to apply the methodologies of these sciences to the Quranic text always tends to be slow and lags behind the rapid and increasing pace of its developments. And if the degree of debate and scientific rigor varies from one stage to another, then a clear separation between "scientific" studies and "debate-based" studies cannot be made except by tracing the history and trends of Quranic studies in the West. Because the study of the Quran in the West has an ancient history dating back to the 12th century AD. And therefore, this history may help distinguish the authentic from the inauthentic, understand the results of the current situation and interpret it, as well as anticipate the future of upcoming studies. And the benefits of this chronological classification are not limited to helping the reader facilitate and clarify the historical path of Quranic studies in the West only, but also shed light on the reasons for the continuity of some historical stances or the development and disappearance of others. Moreover, this chronological classification may help weave causal links between periods and compare them. However, we must take into account that this classification — due to its relative criteria — is a functional and non-absolute classification, given the overlap of periods and the extension of the topics of each period into the subsequent or even the last period.