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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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The Qur'anic conception of normative religious pluralism : hermeneutical study

Abdulah, Arif Kemil January 2012 (has links)
By employing both the thematic approach of Qur’ānic exegesis and the textual analysis of the selected verses, the study explores the Qur’ānic conception of religious pluralism. In particular, the focus of the thesis is on the normative religious pluralism, which appears to have been reduced to mere exclusivism in a great number of sources of Qur’ānic exegesis. This thesis’s line of argumentation against religious exclusivism, therefore, starts with clarification that there are different types of religious pluralism. Thus, in the case of the Qur’ān, the confusion between soteriological, alethic, and normative religious pluralism has led to the emergence of the exclusive approach. By drawing clear distinction between the Qur’ānic theological view on other beliefs and the Qur’ānic ethical view on the followers of other beliefs, the study further constructs five main arguments against religious exclusivism. The arguments are elaborated on the basis of the Qur’ānic ethical system, the universal objectives of human relationships, and the Qur’ānic recognition of the two fundamental as well as dialectical elements of the normative religious pluralism, namely commonality and diversity as fact of nature. The thesis concludes on the need for considering that the Qur’ān distinguishes between the eschatological and the terrestrial dimensions as well as ramifications of the normative religious pluralism, where the latter, which is of the essence for the peacebuilding process in this world, is endorsed by the Qur’ān.
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Emphatic assimilation in classical and modern stardart Arabic: An experimetal approach to Qur'anic recitation

Habis, Ayman Abdullah Hamid January 1998 (has links)
This study deals with the phonetic and phonological performance of expert reciters of the Quran. Experts constitute a special group of speakers who receive intensive oral instruction in tajwid, the traditional discipline of correct and ideal recitation of Classical Arabic. The study falls into five chapters and a conclusion. The first chapter gives a general idea about the history of Arabic and tajwid and outlines the basic principles that underlie the standardization of recitations. The second chapter discusses some basic rules of tajwid and explores their scope. It sheds some light on the relation between tajwid and current phonological theory and physiological phonetics. The third chapter reviews the literature, both traditional and modem, on emphasis in Arabic. The review discusses the articulatory, acoustic and perceptual properties of emphasis in a variety of Arabic styles, and discusses the phonology and phonetics of emphatic coarticulation and the implications it could have for the linguistic grammar of Arabic, including implications for autosegmental theory. The fourth chapter reports the results of an acoustic experiment. We consider the measurement values of the second formant of the vowel /a/, which both tajwid scholars and modem phoneticians claim it exhibits a greater amount of emphasis than other vowels. The phonetic environments examined are both emphatic and plain. The experiment manipulates three main dimensions: (i) expert vs. non-expert reciters, (ii) Classical vs. Modem Standard Arabic, and (iii) four vowel contexts: plain-to-plain, emphatic-to-emphatic,emphatic-to-plain and plain-to-emphatic. One main finding is that emphasis is a unary and gradient feature that has a range over which it can be phonetically realized. We suggest that plainness is apparently a zero or default value that is shared by all speakers and styles. Another finding is that the traditional distinction between experts and non-experts could be objectively verified from their acoustic data. The fifth chapter explores the implications of the experiment for current theories of the phonology-phonetics interface. Emphatic assimilation is discussed within the framework of theories of phonetic underspecification, coarticulation resistance and hyperarticulation. We attempt to find out whether the vowel in an emphatic environment is categorically specified for emphasis or it is rather left underspecified for this feature. Although some of the acoustic measurements conform with a phonetic reading of emphasis on the vowel some others could be taken to imply that emphasis in Classical Arabic does not involve a case of phonetic underspecification. Finally, the conclusion summaries the main findings of the thesis in the light of the experimental study, the literature review and the phonological theories that were considered in the discussion, and it makes recommendations for future studies
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A critical edition of the Ihya' al-Sunna Wa-Ikhmad Al-Bid'a of Uthman b. Fudi popularly known as Usumanu dan Fodio

Balogun, L. A. B. January 1967 (has links)
This thesis presents a critical edition of the Ihya al-Sunna wa-Ikhmäd al-Bid'a of 'Uthmän b. Füd!, the famous Muslim Reformer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries in West Africa. In comparison with all his other known works, over a hundred of them, this book occupies a pride of place and is evidently the author's most major work on Islamic theology and law. The principal parts of the thesis comprise an introduction which consists of four chapters; the text of the book in Arabic; notes and commentary based on the text; and an appendix. Chapter one of the introduction gives a brief account of the author's background : his racial origin and the environment in which he lived. The second chapter treats of his life, career and eventual holy war. Chapter three deals with the author's works in two parts. The first part describes the six manuscripts from which the text has been collated, and the second part gives a complete list of all the author's known works; and also indicates where the manuscripts of most of they.. can be found. Chapter four gives an exposition of the contents of the present work and its importance, and also includes a full translation of the author's Conclusion. The text consists of a preface, an introduction, thirty-three chapters and a conclusion. Footnotes in the text give the variants met with among the manuscripts. Historical and literary glosses are included under Notes and Commentary which also include references to the principal works quoted in the book. A chronology of events in the author's life is given in the appendix.
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A critical edition of Sharh Adab al-Qadic of al-Khassaf, with the commentary of Ibn Maza

Surty, M. I. H. I. January 1972 (has links)
This thesis presents the earliest available treatise on "Adab al-Qädi" written by al-Khassäf (261/874). The work is the most informative and authentic Hanafite treatise relating to the principles of interpreting and administering the Shari'a law. It defines the nature and function of the administration of justice in the early Islamic period. The original work of al-Khassäf is not extant, but we have Ibn Mäza's recension of it together with his comments. The present work of Ibn Mäza is not only a recension of al-Khassäf's treatise but also an examination of the development of the subject from the death of al-Khassäf (i. e., 261/874) up to the year 500/1106. The thesis has been divided into two parts. Part I consists of a critical edition of the treatise Sharh Adab al-Qädi by Ibn Mäza. Part II includes the Introduction consisting of three sections. Section I is devoted to the study of the administration of justice in early Islam. It takes into account the ethical code and organised procedure of the early Islamic courts of law with special reference to the present work.
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An edition of hte first tow chapters of Al-Maturidi's 'Ta Wilat Ahl al-Sunna'

Rahman, Muhammad Mustafizur January 1970 (has links)
This thesis presents an edition of the first two chapters of Imäm Abn Mansur al-Mäturidi's "Ta'wilät ahl al-Sunna" accompanied by an introduction. The author made a thorough endeavour in this work to interpret the Qur'an in the scholastic method both complying with reason and conforming to revelation. Besides critical interpretation of the verses, he took great care in upholding the beliefs of ahl al-Sunna as well as in refuting the views of the different sects particularly the Esoterics, the Anthropomorphists and the Mu'tazilites. His approach was one of Ta'wil as well as a figurative interpretation of the anthropomorphic expressions of the Qur'än as isti'ära and ma'äz. There exist about forty manuscripts of our work in the different libraries of the world. I have consulted all of them except two in Tashkent. For the collation and the preparation of the text, six of them have been used, the rest are either similar copies, duplicates or are incomplete. In the glossary, besides locating traditions and verses, indicating variations and lacunae, short biographical notes, notes on sects and important points, comments and excerpts have been provided.
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Dialogism in the Qur'an : A literary analysis of the story of Abraham

Behairi, Hanadi Muhammad January 2007 (has links)
The Qur'an is an important literary text. It contains all the elements and qualities of good classical Arabic literature: poetic imagery, metaphors and similes, stories, parables, moral precepts and religious injunctions. These and other elements of the Qur'anic literary style. and idioms have been studied and elaborated in terms of the inimitability (I'jäz) of the Qur'an. There is, however, another dimension of the construction of the Qur'anic text that has not been examined at length: dialogism. Dialogue is clearly not dialogism. While dialogue refers to the structure of exchange (of speech in a simple form) between two parties (speaker and addressee) especially in conversation, dialogism pertains to the interrelationships between utterances in speech or discourse that re-enacts the speaker's intention and anticipates the addressee's response. Dialogism may be found in a unit of speech not necessarily cast in the form of dialogue. More importantly, not all dialogues are dialogical. I would like to suggest that by looking at dialogism in the Qur'an, especially Qur'änic stories, it would be possible to read the Qur'an in a new way that would first, shed light on the composition of the Qur'än and second, produce new meaningful readings. of its. stories_ I focus on the story* of Abraham in the Qur'an. A combination of the theories of `Abd al-Qähir al-Jurjän! (471/1078) and Mikhail Bakhtin (1975) serve as the theoretical framework for my analysis In my literary analysis, I highlight the ways in which meaning is derived from an overlapping of semantic and rhetorical functions of language (al-Jurjäni) and, more significantly, from dialogism of worldviews embedded in language use (Bakhtin). The analysis of the story in Abraham in the Qur'an will be undertaken within two main categories; active double voiced words and dialogic imagination. It shows that the Qur'an has a unique nature of dialogic relations. The embedded interrelationship between the Prophet Muhammad and the Prophet Abraham is reflected in selection of words, construction of dialogues, and environments of the text. This interrelationship presents, or represents, the conception of community in the Islamic view.
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A study of Bukhari's scholastic theology (Ibrahim Ibn Isma'il) Talkhis al-adilla, being a treatise on Hanafi scholastic theory

Goriawala, Muìzz January 1955 (has links)
Talkhis al-Adilla (fi E=awaid al-Tawhid) by Abu Ishak Ibrahim ibn Isma'Il al-Saffar al-Bukhari, (d. 23rd or 26th of Rabi al-awwal, 534 = 17th or 20th November 1139) is a work on Hanafi Scholastic theology. The work consists of an introduction and fifty-two chapters (fusul).The first ten chapters are introductory and treat such subjects as the definition of knowledge, scholasticism etc. and represent an exposition of his beliefs in general. 'The 11th chapter deals with the division of 'things' into two kinds, eternal and created. Chapters 12th to 24th deal with substance, accident and body. In the 25th chapter the author raises the question whether it is necessary for God to create the universe or not. Then he discusses the names of God, and in chapters, 26th to 30th he gives an introduction to this subject, viz. names of God and discusses in chapter 30, the question whether language originally was a matter of divine inspiration or not. In the course of his discussion of the names of God he raises other questions including the fate of the still born child in the next world, and what God brings to lite on the Resurrection Day. The 34th chapter is devoted to attributes of God, and continuing this subject, he expounds, in the next chapter, his views regarding the relation between attributes of God and His creatures.Further on, in the 36th chapter, he denies any resemblance between the attributes of God and His creatures, and affirms that all the divine attributes mentioned in the ~ur)an and traditions QO not bear any resemblance to the attributes of His creatures. In the three chapters 36th to 39th the discusses the question concerning Faith. In the 40th and 41st chapters the author treats the question of divine will and Desire and of Free will and Predestination. The next two chapters deal with the question of the divine Speech. Then follows the discussion, whether the prophets are superior to angels in the 44th and 45th chapters and here he shows that the friends of God are human beings. Then follows a chapter on the caliphate. Then the author treats the question of the Last Day and of Hell and Paradise. Lastly in the 52nd chapter Bukharin discusses the question, whether God can be seen in the next world.
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Early Hadith literature & theory of Ignaz Goldshir

Maloush, T. A. H. January 2001 (has links)
This thesis focuses on the study and analysis of three main issues: 1. The role of the Qur'an in the establishment of the Sunnah, and the affirmation of its status and the importance of acting in accordance with it. 2. The role of the Prophet in the propagation and preservation of the Sunnah. 3. The main evidence that is cited by Goldziher in support of his theory of the fabrication of Hadlth during the Umayyad period. The thesis consists of an introduction, two parts and a conclusion. The introduction describes the motivation for choosing the above issues as the subject of the research and demonstrates the method followed. Part One deals with the role of the Qur'an and the Prophet in relation to the Sunnah and contains two chapters. In Chapter 1, attention is given to two issues: The clarification of the Qur'än's urgent requirement for the Sunnah from the revelation of the first verses onwards; and an examination of the Qur'än's detailed explanation of the importance of the Sunnah and of acting according to it. This chapter consists of six sections and a conclusion. Chapter 2 aims to present and discuss the various roles that were performed by the Prophet in the preservation and propagation of his Sunnah. This chapter consists of eight sections and a conclusion. Part Two, which constitutes the main part of the study, undertakes a rigorous study of Goldziher's main evidence regarding his theory of the fabrication of Hadith during the Umayyad period. It consists of an introduction, five chapters and a conclusion. In the introduction, we give a general overview of Goldziher's theory regarding the fabrication of Hadith in the Umayyad period. Chapter 3 contains an analysis of the evidence he cites in support of his claim that the Companions fabricated Iladith, and consists of five sections. Chapter 4 attempts an analysis of the evidence he cites in support of his claim that various `pious scholars' fabricated Hadith during the Umayyads' rule, and consists of seven sections. Chapter 5 contains an analysis of his evidence regarding the Umayyads' fabrication of Hadith, and consists of five sections. Chapter 6 contains an analysis of his evidence regarding the fabrication of Hadith by various theologians and consists of four sections. Chapter 7 contains a demonstration of the impact of Goldziher's opinions on subsequent studies. Finally, the Conclusion summarises the findings of the study.
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A study and edition of Imām Abd al-Azīz b. Alī b. al-Izz al-Baghdādī al-Bakrī al-Ḥanbalī al-Maqdisī : Junnat al-Ṣābirīn al-Abrār Wa Jannat al-Mutawakkilīn al-Akhyār

Al-Olabi, Adnan al-Hamwi January 2003 (has links)
A valuable manuscript written on 266 pages by Imam 'Abd al-'Az-iz b. 'All b. al-'Izz al-Baghdad7i al-Bakr-i al-Uanball al-Maqdis! (770-846 AH / 1369-1443 CE) Chief Justice of Holy Jerusalem. The original manuscript is available at the Arab Academy of Knowledge, Damascus and a copy at Jum'ah Al-Majid Centre for Culture and Heritage, Dubai. The author gathered all verses of patience and trust in Allah and explained them. He derived evidence from the Prophet's tradition, companions, and successors. He cited incidents of the Prophet's biography underlining the value of patience and trust in Allah as an ethical tenet which all heavenly doctrines preach and which the magnanimous Islamic doctrine has adopted as a basic principle of its mission. The book could be classified as an objective exegesis and represents a comprehensive and unprecedented study. This research is divided into two sections: Study and Revision. The study contains an introduction, two chapters, and a conclusion. In the introduction I discuss the subject's importance, selection motive, objectives, former studies, and difficulties encountered. The first chapter is specified for the author's biography: His time and life. The second chapter contains the description, study, and manuscript criticism; divided into two topics: Study of the book and my work in the revision. The conclusion sums up the results, proposals, and recommendations. Selected samples of manuscript sheets are appended. The revision section was accurately completed using an objective scholarly method to regulate the text, supply punctuation marks, number pages, rewrite text in accordance with modem rules of dictation, locate suras and verses, refer Had-iths to their sources, explain vague utterances, conform Qur'anic texts to Uthmani scripture, define idioms, verify jurisprudence issues, correct grammatical mistakes, and describe eminent persons and places. The revision is concluded with general technical indexes.
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Foundations and conditions of copyright in Islamic law

Ahdash, Mohamed Ali January 2008 (has links)
This thesis presents a study on the legal and moral foundations of copyright in the "Shari'a" (Islamic Law), with reference to various schools of "figh" (Islamic Jurisprudence). By following the methodological principles and proofs in the sources of Shari 'a, the study provides the main authoritative groundings for copyright. Examination of copyright in the Shari 'a was performed by collecting and investigating the available references and citations relating to the subject. The material was obtained from various Islamic sources and through the fiqh terminology. Accordingly, the concepts of "hagq" (right), "milkiyya" (ownership), "mal" (wealth) and "manfa'a" (utility) and their definitions made by the leading scholars, were examined in order to understand the precise standing of copyright in Shari 'a. The analyses of these essential definitions revealed that the key factor of these concepts is the approval of Shari`a. Under Shari`a, however, copyright may be considered as hagq whose classifications in fiqh can be applied to copyright. Copyright is manfa'a and mal and can be owned. This understanding can provide an enough room for copyright in Shari'a. This study investigated evidence of copyright starting from the original sources of Shari'a Qur'an and Sunna (the prophetic traditions and practices), and the subsidiary sources such as "Qiyas" (the analogy). The study argues for the legitimacy of copyright on the ground that it reflects principles of justice and honesty, respects right and property, and reduces injustice enrichment. There are some "ahädith " (Prophet's traditions) which may support the idea of copyright. The application of giyds showed some clear cases which can be applied to copyright. An investigation on the supplementary sources of Shari'a; "Maslaha" (the public interest) "'Urf' (custom) and "al-Qawä`id al-Fiqhiyya" (legal maxims) supports copyrights. Therefore, copyright has received support from separate and cooperative evidence. The religious approval of copyright can only be gained, if a given work meets necessary conditions of originality, legality and the public interest. The duration of copyright leaves some scope for differences of view as to whether copyright should be eternal or for specified limited periods, with a discrepancy in theoretical and practical reasoning but the view of perpetual copyright appears to be more evident according to Shari 'a. The range of arguments dealt with in the study ought to dispel any doubt about the acceptance of copyright in Islamic law. The introduction of copyright within Islamic law is an extension and a logical part of "ijtihad" (conscientious reasoning) of Shari 'a. Copyright may be governed by the principles of Shari `a inasmuch as it is strengthened. Finally, the research shows how Shari 'a is a responsive and evolving system and provides guidance to serious and complex issues such as copyright with its international burden and interest.

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