TRS 891B Comparative Reading of the Qur'an
This seminar will concentrate on an interdisciplinary reading of selected chapters from the Qur'an in which the relationship between the "People of the Book" is addressed. The readings will pay attention to both Muslim and non-Muslim traditions of interpretation of the Qur'an, and it will include inter-textual exegesis and comparative theological approaches. While traditional qur'anic exegesis (tafsir) will be one of the major elements of the seminar, knowledge of the Arabic language is not a prerequisite, and the function of qur'anic texts in contemporary dialogues between Muslims and Christians will be explicitly addressed as well.