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Set in British India soon after the Uprising of 1857, God’s Word, Spoken and Otherwise explores the controversial and ingenious ideas of one of South Asia’s most influential public thinkers, Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898). Bringing to light previously unpublished material from his exegetical commentaries on the Bible and Qur’an, this study explores the interplay of natural and prophetic revelation from an intertextual perspective. The book provides fresh insight into Sir Sayyid’s life and work, and underscores both the originality of his ideas, and also their continuity within a dynamic Muslim intellectual tradition.

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Author:   Charles M. Ramsey
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   45
Weight:   0.524kg
ISBN:  

9789004467293

ISBN 10:   9004467297
Pages:   12
Publication Date:   23 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Notes on Translation and Transliteration Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1 Approaching the Texts  2 Approaching the Context  3 Studies on Sayyid Ahmad Khan  4 Outline of the Chapters 2 The Tabyīn in Context  1 The Political Setting  2 The Intellectual Environment  3 Revelation Recorded  4 The British Intellectual Environment  5 Sayyid Ahmad’s Life and Works  6 Conclusion 3 On the Bible  1 What Is the Significance of the Title Tabyīn al-kalām?  2 How Did Sayyid Ahmad Present His Commentaries on the Bible?  3 Rationale for a Muslim Reading of the Bible  4 Taḥrīf: The Greatest Obstacle to the Tabyīn Project  5 Nāsikh wa-mansūkh  6 Tabyīn Part 2  7 To Reconcile Scripture and Science  8 The Garden: What Did Transpire?  9 Conclusion to Genesis  10 Tabyīn Part 3  11 The Person of Jesus Christ  12 The Words and the Text  13 The Counsels of Jesus  14 Tafsīr al-Qurʾān  15 Jesus’s Miraculous Birth  16 Jesus Speaks in Infancy  17 Jesus Raises the Dead  18 Jesus’s Heavenly Ascension  19 Conclusion 4 Prophecy: Rehearsed and Unrehearsed  1 To Know What One Knows  2 Experience as the Basis of Knowledge  3 Experiment as the Way to Knowledge  4 Knowledge for Salvation  5 The Prophetic Experience  6 Differentiating the Rehearsed and the Unrehearsed  7 The Inimitable Qurʾan  8 The Qurʾan as Text  9 Revelation Defined  10 Sources for the Adoption of the Taxonomy  11 Construction Applied to the Bible  12 Revelation Recorded  13 Revelation in the Bible  14 The New Testament Authors  15 Writings Other Than Gospels in the New Testament  16 Conclusion 5 The Coherence of Revelation  1 Introduction  2 Continuity and Originality  3 Scripturalist falsafa  4 Conclusion 6 Conclusion  1 How Did Sayyid Ahmad Conceptualize Prophetic Revelation in the Bible?  2 What Did Sayyid Ahmad Understand Himself to Be Doing in Tabyīn? References Index

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Charles M. Ramsey, Ph.D. (2015), University of Birmingham, is Fellow, Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University (USA) where he teaches courses in Islamic Studies and the History of South Asia. He has published many writings on Islam in South Asia, including South Asian Sufis (Continuum, 2012) and The Gospel According to Sayyid Ahmad Khan (Brill, 2020).

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