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A Critical Analysis Of Amin Ahsan Islahi’s Approach to Understanding the Qur’an by Herman Roborgh

About the Thesis

The word Tadabbur dominates the short title of Islahi’s commentary on the Qur’an, which he called Tadabbur-i-Qur’cm.

The word conjures up the image of a person engaged in listening and reflecting, pondering and contemplating, weighing up and balancing the instructions and values of God’s message communicated through the Qur’an, searching for the guidance that God intended, not only for the people who lived at the time of revelation but for all people.

If this is the import of the word Tadabbur in Islahi’s title, then its readers are being invited to participate in a process of interpretation that cannot be reduced to a single technique leading to preconceived conclusions, but rather to take part in a complex process that is sensitive to the different contributions the author and the reader have in discovering the wisdom of the Qur’an.

The prospect of such a process captivates my interest and hopefully will sustain the interest of the readers of this dissertation as well.