Thursday 5 November 2009

Contextualising the Qur`an within the Qur`an

"Contextualising the Qur`an within the Qur`an"

A very nice one-line summary of Saanei's methodology - provided by a friend but also just to clarify - as someone asked - this is fundamentally different and goes much further than "Commentary of the Qur`an with the Qur`an" (Tafsir al-Qur`an bi al-Qur`an - advocated by many including Tabatabai in his al-Mizan) for the following reasons:

1. It is not using verses of the Qur`an only to understand other verses; it is using the overall view and principles of the Qur`an

2. These principles can be used outside the Qur`an as equivalent to Qur`anic verses, when trying to explain something or propose a law to a new theory...

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