“The Argument from Scripture” (Dalīl al-Naql): Muslim Perceptions of the Bible in the Early Ottoman Period (16th–17th Centuries)

奥斯曼帝国早期的宗教多样性导致穆斯林和基督教学者在神学上探索和批判性地参与彼此的思想和信仰。他们阅读“他者”的经文，因此通过相互批评和/或接受彼此，为古兰经和圣经的去神圣化做出了贡献。该项目特别关注穆斯林使用圣经材料作为证明文本（dalabul al-naql）以及对他们自己的经文和“圣经”的解释。虽然有广泛而深刻的书面证据表明，穆斯林和基督教神学遭遇从这一时期，这些尚未得到太多的学术关注。通过仔细分析穆斯林-基督教神学讨论的选定代表性文本，该项目将揭示穆斯林对“他者”和自我认同的看法。这就提出了关于圣经和古兰经的训诂方法和方法的问题，以及神圣化和非神圣化的实践是如何实现的。因此，应使用实践理论的方法来探索和帮助分别追踪圣经和古兰经文本的使用，以将学术互动置于背景中，并最终更好地理解相关的社会和宗教间关系。拟议的项目“从圣经的论证”涉及一系列学科，如神学，宗教间研究，历史以及文本解释学，并对伊斯兰神学，比较神学，宗教间研究，伊斯兰教的思想史，跨学科研究，穆斯林-基督教关系史和奥斯曼帝国研究的影响。该项目旨在促进更好地理解宗教“伊斯兰教”的穆斯林神学，特别是基督教，在16和17世纪，嵌入在更一般的解释过程中，使用和批判性地参与“其他”规范性文本，即他们的去/神圣化。在与其他子项目的对话中，它有助于研究包容和排斥之间的复杂紧张关系，以及穆斯林对古兰经和圣经的看法之间的微妙相似之处和区别，从而丰富了围绕封圣和去圣过程的话语。

Religious diversity of the early Ottoman period led Muslim and Christian scholars to theologically explore and critically engage with the ideas and beliefs of one another. They read the Scriptures of the ‘Other’ and thus contributed to the de/sacralisation of the Qur’an and the Bible through their mutual criticism and/or acceptance of one another. This project particularly focusses on the Muslim use of biblical materials as proof texts (dalīl al-naql) and interpretation of their own scriptures and those of the ‘Other’. Although there is extensive and profound written evidence of Muslim-Christian theological encounters from this period, these have not yet received much scholarly attention. By closely analysing the selected representative texts of Muslim-Christian theological discussions, the project will shed new light on Muslim perceptions of the ‘Other’ and self-identity. This raises the question of exegetical approaches and methods both with regard to the Bible and the Qur’an and how the practices of sacralisation and desacralisation were effectuated. Approaches from practical theory shall therefore be used to explore and help trace the use of biblical and qur’anic texts respectively, to contextualise scholarly interactions, and ultimately to better understand the related social and interreligious relations. The proposed project ‘The Argument from Scripture’ engages with a range of disciplines, such as theology, interreligious studies, history as well as textual hermeneutics, and has implications for Islamic theology, Comparative theology, Interreligious Studies, intellectual history of Islam, Interdisciplinary Studies, history of Muslim-Christian relations and Ottoman Studies. The project aims to facilitate a better understanding of the Muslim theology of the religious ‘Other’, especially Christianity, in the 16th and 17th centuries, as embedded in more general processes of interpretation, use and critical engagement with ‘Other’ normative texts, i.e. their de/sacralisation. In dialogue with other subprojects, it contributes to the study of the complex tensions between inclusion and exclusion, as well as the subtle parallels and distinctions between Muslim perceptions of the Qur’an and the Bible, and thus enrich the discourses surrounding the processes of canonisation and decanonisation.