Quran, Culture And Civilization

Quran, Culture And Civilization

The Influence of Social-Cultural Background on the Presuppositions of the Quran Exegetes; Case Study: the Andalusian Commentators Interpreting the Verses of Wilāyah

Document Type : Promotional

Authors
Seyed Mahdi Rahmati 1
Fardin Jamshidi Mehr 2
Muhammad Ali Dolat 3
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Theology (Quran and Hadith Sciences), Faculty of Humanities, Gonbad Kavos University, Gonbad Kavos- Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Theology, Gonbad Kavos University, Gonbad Kavos- Iran
3 Assistant Professor of the Secretariat of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution, Tehran, Iran.
10.22034/jksl.2023.374674.1168
Abstract
Knowing the conditions and backgrounds that prevailed during the compilation of Qur'an commentaries is an important and worthy subject. The problem of the present research is to investigate the way by which the Quran Commentators of Andalusia were influenced by the Umayyad atmosphere that dominated the geography and culture of that land, and to reflect how the exegetes used historical reports and interpretative traditions in their works. In this regard, the author, by collecting library data and descriptive-analytical processing method, qualitatively evaluated the commentaries of a number of Andalusian commentators; such as Ibn ‘Atīyyah, Qurtubī, Ibn Juzaī Kalbī and Abū Ḥayyān, while they were interpreting the verses of Wilayat, and how they were influenced by the religious and social background of the rulers of the Islamic Maghreb. The findings of the research show that the Umayyad orientation of Andalusian commentators was the basis for their incomplete and one-sided understanding of the verses of Wilāyah. Also, ignoring a significant amount of the Shia and Sunni narrations in the interpretation of these verses was another cause. The mentioned commentators, by taking advantage of explaining the occasion of revelation, mentioning the irrelevant historical reports, too much attention to the literary aspects in the interpretation of the verses, and ignoring other famous explanatory hadiths related to the verses, have offered an interpretation aligned with their own belief and theoretical basis.

Graphical Abstract

The Influence of Social-Cultural Background on the Presuppositions of the Quran Exegetes; Case Study: the Andalusian Commentators Interpreting the Verses of Wilāyah
Keywords
Wilayah Verses
Exegesis
Social Context
Andalusian Exegetes
Criticism

Subjects

 
 Abāzari, Yūsuf and ʿAbbās Kāẓimī (2005/1384), "Theoretical Approaches to Buying," Social Sciences Journal, Volume 25, Number 25, pp. 167-195.
 Baheshṭī, Sayyid Muḥammad (2009/1388), "Gift-Exchange System in Iranian Markets and Its Relation to Iranian Architecture and Urbanism," Abādī Quarterly, Nineteenth Year, Number 64, pp. 10-13.
 Bahzādfar, Muṣṭafā (2009/1388), "Social Role and Function of Traditional Markets in Iranian Cities," Abādī Quarterly, Nineteenth Year, Number 64, pp. 14-19.
 Bīyāt, Bahrām (2014/1393), "Islamic Approach to the City: Features of an Islamic City," Theoretical Social Sciences of Muslim Thinkers, Fourth Year, Number 1, pp. 137-167.
 Faraj, Ibrāhīm (2011/1390), "Designing a Happiness-Centered Consumption Model," Journal of Islamic Economics Studies, Fourth Year, Number 1, pp. 67-91.
 Javādī Āmulī, ʿAbdullāh (2015/1394), "Keys to Life," Qom: Isrā Publication, First Edition.
 Kāẓimī, ʿAbbās and Yūsuf Abāzari (2004/1383), "Everyday Life and Shopping Centers in Tehran," Anthropological Journal, Third Year, Number 6, pp. 97-116.
 Khāldiyān, Sattār (2014/1393), "Explaining the Position of Islam in the Process of Urbanization and the Organization of Urban Space in Iran," Journal of Studies on Islamic Iranian Cities, Seventeenth Number, pp. 5-18.
 Kulaynī, Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb (1982/1401), "Al-Kāfī," Edited by ʿAlī Ghaffārī, Beirut: Bīnā.
 Makārim Shīrāzī, Nāṣir and Jaʿfar Sabhānī (2002/1381), "Answers to Religious Questions," Madrasat al-Imām ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (AS) Publications, Second Edition.
 Muḥaqqiq Dāmād, Muḥammad Ḥusayn (2016/1394), "The System of Existence and Necessity from the Perspective of Mullā Ṣadrā," Nineteenth National Conference on Ḥakīm Mullā Ṣadrā.
 Mūlāʾī, Asghar (2018/1396), "Explaining the Foundations of an Islamic City Based on Islamic Law," Journal of Philosophy of Religion, Fourteenth Volume, Number 4, pp. 878-855.
 Mūlāʾī, Asghar (2019/1398), "Reconstruction of Formative Indicators of Social and Cultural Order in an Islamic Iranian City: A Comparative Study of Historical Bazaar of Tabriz and the Surrounding Passages," Cultural Sociology Journal, Tenth Year, Number 1, pp. 99-75.
 Mūlāʾī, Asghar and Maʿṣūmah Āyisham (2018/1397), "The Role of Social Factors in the Structure of Iranian Cities," Journal of Urban Management, Number 53, pp. 140-121.
 Mūlāʾī, Asghar and Muḥammad Taqī Pīr Bābābāī (2018/1397), "Identification of Religious Spaces as Fundamental Symbolic Elements in the Structure of Iranian Cities; A Case Study of Ray City," Journal of Urban Management, Number 51, pp. 258-243.
 Mūsawī, Muḥsin (1998/1377), "Collection of Works of Martyr Mūsawī," Tehran: Ṣadrā Publications.
 Mūsawī, Muḥsin (1998/1377), "Notes of Martyr Mūsawī," Tehran: Ṣadrā Publications, First Edition.
 Mūsawī, Muḥsin (2001/1380), "An Opinion on the Islamic Economic System," Tehran: Ṣadrā Publications, Tenth Edition.
 Mūsawī, Muḥsin (2002/1381), "Islam and the Imperatives of the Time," Tehran: Ṣadrā Publications, Thirteenth Edition.
 Mūsawī, Muḥsin (2003/1382), "Six Essays," Tehran: Ṣadrā Publications, First Edition.
 Mūsawī, Muḥsin (2003/1382), "Ten Lectures," Tehran: Ṣadrā Publications, Nineteenth Edition.
 Mūsawī, Muḥsin (2004/1383), "The Perfect Man," Tehran: Ṣadrā Publications, Thirtieth Edition.
 Namāzī, Ḥusayn (1995/1374), "Economic Systems," Tehran: Shāhid Bihishtī University Publications.
 Pūrjaʿfar, Muḥammad Riḍā and ʿAlī Pūrjaʿfar (2011/1390), "The Role of Social Capital in the Economic Situation of Traditional Iranian Markets," Journal of Urban Management, Ninth Year, Spring and Summer Special Issue, pp. 203-222.
 Qaḥf, Munẓar (2005/1384), "Religion and Economics: The Islamic Economic System and the Science of Islamic Economics," Translated by Sayyid Ḥusayn Mīrmuʿizzī, Journal of Islamic Economics Studies, Fifth Year, pp. 157-178.
 Qaḥf, Munẓar (2006/1385), "A Review of Islamic Economic Models" (Translation of the Second Chapter of the Book "Islamic Economics: A Science or an Illusion"), Translated by Sayyid Ḥusayn Mīrmuʿizzī, Journal of Islamic Economics Studies, Sixth Year, pp. 157-187.
 Qalandaryān-Gol-Khaṭmī, Iṣmān and Maḥdī Ḥaqīqat-Bīn (2015/1394), "The Application of Jurisprudence in Realizing Safe Urban Space," Shiʿah Studies Journal, Fourteenth Year, Number 98, pp. 55-69.
 Ra'īsī, Muḥammad Manān (2016/1395), "An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Physical and Spatial Transformations of Contemporary Iranian Markets and Commercial Centers with Emphasis on Religious Texts," Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Eighth Year, Number 2, pp. 99-118.
 Ṣadr, Sayyid Muḥammad Bāqir (1971/1350), "Our Economy," Translated by ʿAlī Iṣbahbūdī, Tehran: Islamic Publications Institute.
 Saʿīdī, ʿAlī and Muḥammad Hādī Zāhidī-Vafā (2011/1390), "An Islamic Approach to the Role of Consumer Behavior in Creating and Expanding Economic Crises," Journal of Islamic Economics Studies, Fourth Year, Number 1, pp. 121-141.
 Saʿīdnīā, Aḥmad (2009/1388), "Definition and Concepts of Iranian Urban Markets," Abādī Quarterly, Nineteenth Year, Number 64, pp. 6-9.
 Ṣālehī, Akbar and Sāʿīd Rūmānī (2015/1394), "Investigating the Relationship Between Lifestyle and Religious Attitudes and the Extent of Tendency Towards Secularism Among Students," Ethical Promotion Journal, Fourth Year, Number 18, pp. 153-171.
 Shafqī, Sīrūs (2004/1383), "Spatial-Structural Analysis of the Isfahan Bazaar," Geographical Research Journal, Number 60, pp. 22-50.
 Ṭabāṭabā'ī, Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn (1981/1360), "The Balance in Quranic Exegesis," Tehran: Rujā' Publication.
 Ṭabāṭabā'ī, Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn (1997/1376), "Epistemological Perceptions of Allama Ṭabāṭabā'ī and the Philosophy of Culture," Edited by ʿAlī-Asghar Muṣallih, Tehran: Rūzgār-i Naw Publications.
 Ṭabāṭabā'ī, Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn (2008/1387), "The Spirituality of Shiʿism," Including Several Other Articles, Edited by Muḥammad Badīʿī, Qom: Tashayyu Publications, Fourth Edition.
 Yūsufī, Aḥmad ʿAlī (2002/1381), "Methods of Deduction of the Islamic Economic System," Fiqh Magazine: A New Exploration in Islamic Jurisprudence, Qom: Office for Islamic Promotion, Number 18, pp. 327-287.

  • Receive Date 28 November 2022
  • Revise Date 05 July 2023
  • Accept Date 10 July 2023
  • Publish Date 23 August 2023