Minding Scripture, Part 9: Qur'an Criticism

About this episode

This episode discusses the significance of critical scholarship on the Qur'an and its implications for faith and traditional Muslim understanding.

Episode Topic: Qur'an Criticism What importance do developments in critical scholarship on the Qur’an have for the life of faith? How have Muslims traditionally understood the Qur’an? What were the nineteenth- and twentieth-century beginnings of Western critical scholarship on the Qur’an, and what are its motivating questions today? Where do Western critical scholarship and traditional reading of the Qur’an converge? Do the findings of Western critical scholarship fundamentally challen...

Topics covered

• Qur'an Criticism
• critical scholarship
• Muslim understanding
• Western scholarship
• faith
• traditional reading

Keywords

• Qur'an
• criticism
• scholarship
• faith
• Muslims
• Western
• traditional reading

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Notre Dame

Books & works: Qur'an

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