Inscribing Persian in the Arabic Cosmopolis
Case Study of Qur’ānic Exegesis from Khorasan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22023936 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Majid Daneshgar (University of Freiburg), Sajjad Rizvi (0000-0002-5443-3237, University of Exeter) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-28 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Islamic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2207-4414 • E-ISSN: 2207-4414 |
| Publisher | Islamic Sciences and Research Academy (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.55831/ajis.v7i1.461 |
| OpenAlex | W4229333853 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
Scholarly discourse on the Persianate tends to focus on the influence of Persian in Iran and further east, and often occludes the way in which the Persian language is inflected and present in the Arabic cosmopolis further west. Similarly, the formation of ‘Islamic classics’ and scholarly genres including exegesis tends to ignore the role of Persian works (and texts produced in a Persianate context). Through a case study of Qur’ānic exegesis in Persian and its reception west of Iran, we demonstrate how Persian is inscribed into the Arabic cosmopolis such that the development of post-classical exegesis should place these works alongside the major Arabic classics of al-Ṭabarī, al-Thaʿlabī and al-Basīṭ; in effect, we contend the study of Qur’ānic exegesis cannot ignore the study of Persian exegesis. Through examining rare manuscripts, we show how scholars read, copied and promoted Persian tafsir in Arabophone contexts. Not only does this study follow up on and test some earlier scholarly works dealing with the circulation of Persian translations of the Qur’ān and its commentaries as well as the scholarly impact of the Persians further west, it indicates the contribution of Persian exegesis to a normative understanding of the Islamic exegetical traditions at the heart of the madrasa
Arabic · Archaeology · Art · Exegesis · Islam · Linguistics · Literature · Persian · Classics · Education and Islamic Studies · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy
Objects of Translation
The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 1516–1788
Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century
Islamic Ecumenism in the 20th Century
Ethics and Spirituality in Islam
Persianate Aspects of the Malay-Indonesian World
The Venture of Islam, Volume 3
Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the East
I Want to Become an Orientalist Not a Colonizer or a “De-Colonizer”
Reversing the Gaze? Or Decolonizing the Study of the Qurʾan
Provincializing Mecca? (1924–1969)
Zaydi Shiʿism and the Ḥasanid Sharifs of Mecca
Islam Translated, Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia
The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters
Interpreting Islam in China
Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th - 15th Century Tabriz
Mortuary Practices in the Persian Period of the Levant
Decolonizing Qurʾanic Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |