Tehseen Thaver
Biographic Data
| ID | 5178312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tehseen Thaver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tehseen |
| FAMILY NAME | Thaver |
| SIGNATURE | THAVER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Integrating Shiʿi Studies and Religious Studies through the Site of Qur’an Commentary
BEYOND SECTARIANISM: AMBIGUITY, HERMENEUTICS, AND THE FORMATIONS OF RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN ISLAM. By Tehseen Thaver. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. Pp. 320. Hardcover, $49.95. First and foremost, I want to express my utmost gratitude to Nathanael Homewood at Religious Studies Review for suggesting and supervising this special forum, and to Ruqayya Khan, Martin Nguyen, and Cyrus Zargar for their enormously thoughtful and …
Retrieving the Senses in Qur’anic Exegetical Texts
What is the relationship between Qur’an exegesis, ritual practice, and the formation of religious identities and communities? This is the central question this essay will address by focusing on the first Persian Qur’an commentary to have been composed by a Twelver Shiʿi scholar, Shaykh Abu al-Futuh al-Razi (d. 1131), titled The Cool Breeze of Paradise and Breath for the Soul (Rawd al-Jinan wa Rawh al-Janan fi tafsir al-Qur’an) . In particular, I …
Toward a Post-Orientalist Conception of Qur’anic Studies 1
Ambivalences of Modernity in Contemporary Turkish Sufism
This article engages the thought, career, and public activities of the prominent contemporary female Sufi master in Turkey, Cemalnur Sargut of the Rifaʿi order, to explore the negotiation and transformation of Sufi authority in the Turkish public sphere, permeated by the shadows of modern secular power. By examining the multiple platforms through which Cemalnur disseminates her teachings and the hermeneutic that guides her engagement with the Tur…
Language as Power
How did pre-modern Muslim exegetes view the mediating role of language in accessing the Qur'an's meaning? What conception of language undergirded their arguments? And what sources of normative authority informed their interpretive canvas? By pursuing this cluster of questions, this essay aims to sketch a picture of the relationship between language and revelation in pre-modern traditions of Qur'an exegesis. More specifically, I conduct a close re…
Encountering Ambiguity
Within the broader discipline of Qur'anic exegesis, the sub-genre of the mutashābihāt al-Qurʾān (the ambiguous verses of the Qur'an) is comprised of works dedicated to the identification and explication of those verses that present theological or linguistic challenges. Yet, the approach, style, and objective of the scholars who have written commentaries on the ambiguous verses are far from monolithic. This essay brings into focus the internal div…
Ambivalences of Modernity in Contemporary Turkish Sufism
This article engages the thought, career, and public activities of the prominent contemporary female Sufi master in Turkey, Cemalnur Sargut of the Rifaʿi order, to explore the negotiation and transformation of Sufi authority in the Turkish public sphere, permeated by the shadows of modern secular power. By examining the multiple platforms through which Cemalnur disseminates her teachings and the hermeneutic that guides her engagement with the Tur…
Encountering Ambiguity
Within the broader discipline of Qur'anic exegesis, the sub-genre of the mutashābihāt al-Qurʾān (the ambiguous verses of the Qur'an) is comprised of works dedicated to the identification and explication of those verses that present theological or linguistic challenges. Yet, the approach, style, and objective of the scholars who have written commentaries on the ambiguous verses are far from monolithic. This essay brings into focus the internal div…
Language as Power
How did pre-modern Muslim exegetes view the mediating role of language in accessing the Qur'an's meaning? What conception of language undergirded their arguments? And what sources of normative authority informed their interpretive canvas? By pursuing this cluster of questions, this essay aims to sketch a picture of the relationship between language and revelation in pre-modern traditions of Qur'an exegesis. More specifically, I conduct a close re…
Ambivalences of Modernity in Contemporary Turkish Sufism
This article engages the thought, career, and public activities of the prominent contemporary female Sufi master in Turkey, Cemalnur Sargut of the Rifaʿi order, to explore the negotiation and transformation of Sufi authority in the Turkish public sphere, permeated by the shadows of modern secular power. By examining the multiple platforms through which Cemalnur disseminates her teachings and the hermeneutic that guides her engagement with the Tur…
Retrieving the Senses in Qur’anic Exegetical Texts
What is the relationship between Qur’an exegesis, ritual practice, and the formation of religious identities and communities? This is the central question this essay will address by focusing on the first Persian Qur’an commentary to have been composed by a Twelver Shiʿi scholar, Shaykh Abu al-Futuh al-Razi (d. 1131), titled The Cool Breeze of Paradise and Breath for the Soul (Rawd al-Jinan wa Rawh al-Janan fi tafsir al-Qur’an) . In particular, I …
Toward a Post-Orientalist Conception of Qur’anic Studies 1
Integrating Shiʿi Studies and Religious Studies through the Site of Qur’an Commentary
BEYOND SECTARIANISM: AMBIGUITY, HERMENEUTICS, AND THE FORMATIONS OF RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN ISLAM. By Tehseen Thaver. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. Pp. 320. Hardcover, $49.95. First and foremost, I want to express my utmost gratitude to Nathanael Homewood at Religious Studies Review for suggesting and supervising this special forum, and to Ruqayya Khan, Martin Nguyen, and Cyrus Zargar for their enormously thoughtful and …
Islamic Studies and History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (3 works) · Families in Therapy and Culture (3 works) · History (3 works) · Islam (3 works)