Type of Credit: Elective
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Number of Students
The course will introduce the essential knowledge about the Qurʾān and hadith corpus, their formation, structures, key themes, and relations to the other disciplines, especially the exegetical tradition. Special emphasis is placed on the recitation of the Qurʾān. The approaches to the historicity of these scriptural texts in conjunction with the scholarly debates will be covered. This course will also involve close reading of part of the Qurʾānic text and hadith, in addition to other secondary texts.
*This course is lectured in English
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| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
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Schedule
W1 Induction to the Course and Introduction to the Qurʾān and Hadith
W2 The Formation of the Qurʾānic codex & Tutorial
W3 The Textual and Recitational Variants of the Qurʾān
W4 The Textual and Recitational Variants of the Qurʾān
W5 The Qurʾāic Exegesis
W6 The Qurʾāic Exegesis
W7 The Qurʾāic Exegesis
W8 Revision
W9 Midterm
W10 The Qurʾān: Themes and Structures & Tutorial
W11 The Qurʾān: Themes and Structures & Tutorial
W12 The Hadith: Transmission, Collection, and Canonisation & Tutorial
W13 The Hadith Criticism: The Quest for Authenticity & Tutorial
W14 The Hadith Criticism: The Quest for Authenticity & Tutorial
W15 Hermeneutical Engagement with the Scriptures: Sunna and Law & Tutorial
W16 Revision
W17 (January 5) Final Examination
Course Requirements/Grading standards
Students are expected to 1) have a good command of reading English; 2) be committed to fulfilling the reading tasks; 3) engage in the discussion on the given theme.
Midterm Examination 25%
Final Examination 25%
Recitation of the Qurʾān 15% (by Dr. Koshkaki)
In-Class Discussion (Q&A after the guest lectures) and Tutorials 35%
Reading
Induction to the Course and Introduction to the Qurʾān and Hadith
Set reading
Sonn, T. ‘Introducing.’ In The Blackwell Companion to the Qurʾān. Edited by A. Rippin. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, 3–17 [access via Library].
Shahab Ahmed, “HADITH i. A GENERAL INTRODUCTION,” Encyclopædia Iranica, XI/4, pp. 442-447, available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/hadith-i-intro (accessed on 30 December 2012).
Further
Brown, J.A. Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World. Oxford: One World, 2009, 1–15.
Cook, M. The Koran: a Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, chapter 4 (The Interpretation of the Koran) [E-Book available].
The Formation of the Qurʾānic codex & Tutorial
Set Reading
Gilliot, C. ‘Creation of a fixed text.’ In The Cambridge Companion to the Qurʾān. Edited by J.D. McAuliffe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 41–57.
Tutorial
Al-Aʿẓamī, Muḥammad M. The History of the Qur’anic Text: From Revelation to Compilation. Leicester: UK Islamic Academy, n.d., 67–108.
al-Bukhārī. Ṣaḥīḥ. Edited by Abū Ṣuhayb al-Karamī. Riyadh: Bayt al-Afkār al-Dawliyya, 1998, 4984, 4986–4988 (translation available: https://sunnah.com/).
Further
Sinai, Nicolai. The Qur’an: A Historical Critical Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, 40–77.
Nöldeke, Th., et alii, The History of the Qur’ān. Translated by Wolfgang H. Behn. Leiden: Brill, 2013, 223–275.
The Textual and Recitational Variants of the Qurʾān
Set Reading
Gade, Anna M. ‘Recitation.’ In The Blackwell Companion to the Qur’ān. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, 577–590.
Thomas Bauer. A Culture of Ambiguity: An Alternative History of Islam. Translated by Hinrich Biesterfeldt and Tricia Tunstall. New York: Columbia University Press. 2011, 1–93.
The Qurʾān: Themes and Structures & Tutorial
Set Reading
Sinai, Nicolai. The Qur’an: A Historical Critical Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, 11–39.
Ernst, C.W. How to read the Qur’an: a new guide, with select translations. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011, 37–75.
Tutorial
The Qurʾān, s.1, 15, 18, 53, 60.
Further
Nöldeke, Th., et alii, The History of the Qur’ān. Translated by Wolfgang H. Behn. Leiden: Brill, 2013, 55–77, 97–99, 117, 135–141.
Neuwirth, Angelika. “Structural, Linguistic and Literary Features.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Qur’ān, edited by Jane Dammen McAuliffe, 97–114. Cambridge Companions to Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521831601.006.
The Qurʾān: Themes and Structures
Tutorial
Ernst, C.W. How to read the Qur’an: a new guide, with select translations. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011, 76–119; 155–166.
The Hadith: Transmission, Collection, and Canonisation
Set Reading
Brown, J.A. Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World. Oxford: One World, 2009, 15–66.
Further
Ṣiddīqī, Muḥammad Z. Ḥadīth Literature: Its Origin, Development and Special Features. Cambridge: The Islamic Texts Society, 1993, 28–75.
Tutorial
al-Bukhārī. Ṣaḥīḥ. Edited by Abū Ṣuhayb al-Karamī. Riyadh: Bayt al-Afkār al-Dawliyya, 1998, 4474–4977 (translation available: https://sunnah.com/).
The Hadith Criticism: The Quest for Authenticity & Tutorial
Set Reading
Brown, J.A. Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World. Oxford: One World, 2009, 67–122.
Tutorial
Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ. An Introduction to the Science of the Ḥadīth (Kitāb Maʿrifat Anwāʿ ʿilm al-Ḥadīth). Translated by Eerik Dickinson. Reading: Garnet, 2006, 5–41.
The Hadith Criticism: The Quest for Authenticity & Tutorial
Set Reading
Brown, J.A. Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World. Oxford: One World, 2009, 197–239, 240–268.
Tutorial
Brown, J.A. Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy. London: Oneworld, 69–83, 200–214.
Hermeneutical Engagement with the Scriptures: Sunna and Law & Tutorial
Set Reading
Brown, J.A. Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World. Oxford: One World, 2009, 150–172, 240–268.
Tutorial
Brown, J.A. Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy. London: Oneworld, 268–290.
Hermeneutical Engagement with the Qurʾān: Translation as an Interpretative Process & Tutorial
Set Reading
Berg, H. ‘Context: Muḥammad.’ In The Blackwell Companion to the Qurʾān. Edited by A. Rippin. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, 200–217.
Crone, Patricia. ‘Problems in Sura 53’. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 78, no. 1 (February 2015): 15–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X15000014.
McAuliffe, J.D. ‘Exegetical Sciences.’ In The Blackwell Companion to the Qur’ān. Edited by A. Rippin. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, 495–511.
Further
Gätje H. The Qurʾān and its exegesis : selected texts with classical and modern Muslim interpretations. Translated by Alford T. Welch. Oxford: Oneworld, 1997, 30–44.
Rippin, A., ‘Tafsīr,’ in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition.
Tutorial
The Qurʾān, s.4, 18, 24, 53, 60, translations by
A.J. Arberry
M.M. Pickthall
‘A. Yusuf Ali:
Available at https://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=53&verse=1