Contemporary Perspectives on Revelation and Qur’ānic Hermeneutics An Analysis of Four Discourses
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Dr. Ali Akbar is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Melbourne in Australia where he received his PhD in Islamic Studies. He is an expert in the fields of Islamic Studies with a focus on contemporary Islamic thought and Middle Eastern politics as well as Iranian politics with a focus on Iran’s foreign policy in the Middle East and beyond. He is co-author of Iran’s Soft Power in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) as well as lead author of Contemporary Approaches to the Qur’an and Its Interpretation in Iran (Routledge, 2020) and sole author of Contemporary Perspectives on Revelation and Qur’anic Hermeneutics (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). In addition to these books, Dr. Akbar has published extensively in top-tier journals including Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, British Journal of Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies, Mediterranean Politics, Third Word Quarterly and Political Theology.Contemporary Perspectives on Revelation and Qur’ānic Hermeneutics An Analysis of Four Discourses
(...) Contemporary Perspectives on Revelation provides a comprehensive study of the surveyed scholars’ theory of revelation and its influence on their hermeneutic approaches.
- Hasan Doagoo, Religious Studies Review
Contemporary Perspectives on Revelation and Qurʾanic Hermeneutics offers a systematic and analytical study of a specific trend in understanding the nature of revelation, as represented in the works of four contemporary Muslim reformists: Abdulkarim Soroush, Muhammad Mujtahid Shabestari, Fazlur Rahman, and Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd.(...) An academic reader interested in the contemporary debate on the nature of revelation in Islamic scholarship would find this book beneficial and a valuable contribution.
- Hasan Doagoo, Religious Studies Review
In this timely, innovative and detailed study Ali Akbar masterfully examines four major proponents of a "humanist" theory of revelation in Islam and how this theory informs their respective Qur’anic hermeneutics. Importantly, Akbar also discusses the practical socio-political and legal implications of this ‘humanistic’ theory of revelation and aptly recognises the crucial role this theory has in enabling meaningful and consequential renewal of religious discourse as a first and necessary step toward the engendering of more democratic, human rights-based and egalitarian Muslim societies and cultures.
- Adis Duderija, Griffith University,
(...) Contemporary Perspectives on Revelation provides a comprehensive study of the surveyed scholars’ theory of revelation and its influence on their hermeneutic approaches.
- Hasan Doagoo, Religious Studies Review
Contemporary Perspectives on Revelation and Qurʾanic Hermeneutics offers a systematic and analytical study of a specific trend in understanding the nature of revelation, as represented in the works of four contemporary Muslim reformists: Abdulkarim Soroush, Muhammad Mujtahid Shabestari, Fazlur Rahman, and Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd.(...) An academic reader interested in the contemporary debate on the nature of revelation in Islamic scholarship would find this book beneficial and a valuable contribution.
- Hasan Doagoo, Religious Studies Review
In this timely, innovative and detailed study Ali Akbar masterfully examines four major proponents of a "humanist" theory of revelation in Islam and how this theory informs their respective Qur’anic hermeneutics. Importantly, Akbar also discusses the practical socio-political and legal implications of this ‘humanistic’ theory of revelation and aptly recognises the crucial role this theory has in enabling meaningful and consequential renewal of religious discourse as a first and necessary step toward the engendering of more democratic, human rights-based and egalitarian Muslim societies and cultures.
- Adis Duderija, Griffith University,