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And Your Garments Purify: tahāra in the Light of tafsīr

And Your Garments Purify: tahāra in the Light of tafsīr And Your Garments Purify: Shuruq Naguib LANCASTER UNIVERSITY Why examine notions of purity (†ah�ra) in tafsır when conventional wisdom tells us to look in the books of fiqh? Considered ‘polluted’ by the idiosyncratic interests of individual classical exegetes, or deficient in its approach to Qur’anic themes, tafsır has been, so far, precluded from the study of †ah�ra.1 The contention here is that because it contains a variety of exegetical opinions, methods and scholarly traditions, tafsır is more of an interdisciplinary genre than an enclosed discipline. Thus, a study of how Qur’anic notions of purity are represented in tafsır works can help us locate †ah�ra within the larger religious discourse encompassing the various disciplines that have evolved from the responses of Muslims to the Qur’an alongside other authoritative texts. This being the task, tafsır is well suited as an entry point into different layers of religious discourse beyond the confines of juristic compendiums. The works to be examined below are all from the classical period. They include al‡abarı (d. 310/922) through whom we can have a glimpse into formative interpretations of the Qur’an; al-Zamakhsharı (d. 538/1144); al-R�zı (d. 606/1209); al-Qur†ubı (d. 671/1272) and Ibn Kathır http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Qur'anic Studies Edinburgh University Press

And Your Garments Purify: tahāra in the Light of tafsīr

Naguib, Shuruq
Journal of Qur'anic Studies , Volume 9 (1): 59 – Apr 1, 2007
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10.3366/jqs.2007.9.1.59
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And Your Garments Purify: Shuruq Naguib LANCASTER UNIVERSITY Why examine notions of purity (†ah�ra) in tafsır when conventional wisdom tells us to look in the books of fiqh? Considered ‘polluted’ by the idiosyncratic interests of individual classical exegetes, or deficient in its approach to Qur’anic themes, tafsır has been, so far, precluded from the study of †ah�ra.1 The contention here is that because it contains a variety of exegetical opinions, methods and scholarly traditions, tafsır is more of an interdisciplinary genre than an enclosed discipline. Thus, a study of how Qur’anic notions of purity are represented in tafsır works can help us locate †ah�ra within the larger religious discourse encompassing the various disciplines that have evolved from the responses of Muslims to the Qur’an alongside other authoritative texts. This being the task, tafsır is well suited as an entry point into different layers of religious discourse beyond the confines of juristic compendiums. The works to be examined below are all from the classical period. They include al‡abarı (d. 310/922) through whom we can have a glimpse into formative interpretations of the Qur’an; al-Zamakhsharı (d. 538/1144); al-R�zı (d. 606/1209); al-Qur†ubı (d. 671/1272) and Ibn Kathır

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Published: Apr 1, 2007

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