Modernist Qur’anic exegesis in an age of transformation: apologetics, translation and the movement of ideas in the early 20th century

转型时代的现代主义《古兰经》注释：20世纪初的护教学、翻译和思想运动

• 批准号: 415543504
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Johanna Pink
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Orientalisches Seminar
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/415543504?language=en
• 关键词: Modernist; Qur; anic; exegesis; age

This project connects two fields of research: First, the history of Muslim exegesis of the Qur’an, and second, the transregional history of Muslim modernism in the early 20th century with a focus on Egypt and the Malay-Indonesian world.Its goal is to understand modernist Qur’anic exegesis as it emerged around the turn of the century. Modernism, here, is understood as a transregional intellectual discourse that was concerned with reforming Islam in a way that equipped Muslims to overcome their perceived backwardness. Modernist Qur’anic exegesis was a global phenomenon whose reception, appropriation and translation was facilitated and guided by the availability of print media. The project is going to look at the dispersion of modernist ideas in Egypt and the Malay world during the first third of the 20th century. In doing so, it will seek to identify the specific local circumstances in which modernist exegesis was produced and published. The project is interested in studying these developments as part of the history of Qur’anic exegesis (tafsir). As such, it pays particular attention to the tension between the established genre of the Qur’anic commentary and the desire or even pressure to develop novel exegetical approaches. It uses tafsir as a lens through which to examine broader developments such as the spread of print media, the reform of educational institutions and the religious response to various forms of Western dominance throughout a period of time that was in itself dynamic and characterised by ruptures.Since the number and scope of exegetical sources from the first third of the 20th century is vast, the project narrows the focus of inquiry to a specific theme: that of apologetics. We will focus on such topics that are related to an exegetical problem posed by a specific Qur’anic segment of text and that clearly serve the defence of Islamic religious doctrines, scriptures or figures against European and/or Christian critics. The choice of this subject issue is related to the enormous importance that confrontations or engagement with imperial and colonial administrators, Orientalists and Christian missionaries had for Muslim scholars and intellectuals. By analysing a corpus of Egyptian and Malay-Indonesian exegetical sources and comparing their approach to the above-mentioned exegetical problems, we hope to shed light on the agents and media through which modernist ideas spread, the changes they underwent in the light of political transformations, the ways in which they were selectively adapted to local contexts and the persistence and re-appropriation of exegetical traditions.

该项目将两个研究领域联系起来：第一，穆斯林对《古兰经》注释的历史;第二，20世纪初穆斯林现代主义的跨区域历史，重点是埃及和马来-印度尼西亚世界。其目标是了解现代主义《古兰经》注释，因为它出现在世纪之交。在这里，现代主义被理解为一种跨区域的知识话语，它关注的是改革伊斯兰教，使穆斯林能够克服他们所认为的落后。现代主义古兰经注释是一种全球现象，其接受、挪用和翻译受到印刷媒体可用性的促进和指导。该项目将着眼于20世纪前三分之一时期现代主义思想在埃及和马来世界的传播。在这样做的时候，它将寻求确定现代主义注释产生和出版的具体当地情况。该项目有兴趣研究这些发展作为古兰经注释史（tafsir）的一部分。因此，它特别关注古兰经注释的既定类型与发展新的训诂方法的愿望甚至压力之间的紧张关系。它使用tafsir作为一个透镜，通过它来考察更广泛的发展，如印刷媒体的传播，教育机构的改革和宗教对西方统治的各种形式的反应，整个时期本身就是动态的，其特征是断裂。由于20世纪前三分之一的训诂来源的数量和范围是巨大的，该项目将调查的重点缩小到一个特定的主题：护教学。我们将集中讨论与古兰经特定文本段所提出的训诂问题有关的主题，这些主题显然有助于捍卫伊斯兰宗教教义，经文或数字，反对欧洲和/或基督教批评家。选择这一主题问题是因为与帝国和殖民地管理者、东方主义者和基督教传教士的对抗或接触对穆斯林学者和知识分子具有巨大的重要性。通过分析埃及和马来-印度尼西亚的训诂来源的语料库，并比较他们的方法，上述训诂问题，我们希望阐明现代主义思想传播的代理人和媒体，他们在政治变革的光经历的变化，在其中他们选择性地适应当地的环境和持久性和重新占用的训诂传统的方式。