Meaning must not confront, but embrace the world.

This trend fits within a post-modern tendency towards reducing the almost endless diversity of the world into perennial meanings which do not define but overarch the world. RahmanвЂ™s small work belonged to a modernistic trend within QurКѕДЃnic exegesis, the concept of a thematic reading ( al-tafsД«r al-maw бёЌ Е« Кї Д«) which summarizes sections of the text to selective dominant themes. The book, which is an adaption of his doctoral thesis, is a clear representation of HarveyвЂ™s own intellectual training within modern academic and traditional Islamic studies. The QurвЂ™an and the Just SocietyВ builds on both earlier modern works, especially Fazlur RahmanвЂ™s Themes of the QurвЂ™an, and a broad reading of the classical SunnД« interpretive tradition, with an emphasis on the бё¤anafД«-MДЃturД«dД« school of thought. It then explores three forms of justice: political justice as expressed in politics, peace, and war, distributive justice as expressed in trade, alms, marriage, and inheritance, and corrective justice, as expressed in rulings relating to public and private crimes. It then explores three forms of justice: political justice as expressed in politics, peace, and war, distributive justice as expressed in trade, alms, marriage, and inheritance, and corrective justice, as expressed in rulings relating to public and private crimes Each chapter explores the ethical structure of the QurКѕДЃnвЂ™s vision of a вЂjust society.вЂ™ It starts with an elaborate introduction to the concept of ethics and theology, hermeneutics, and how these are linked to the historicity of the QurКѕДЃn.

Harvey constructs a theological and hermeneutic framework to explore this revealed concept of justice within its socio-historical context and hopes thereby to lay the foundations for future contemporary articulations of QurвЂ™anic ethics.Д®ach chapter explores the ethical structure of the QurКѕДЃnвЂ™s vision of a вЂjust society.вЂ™ It starts with an elaborate introduction to the concept of ethics and theology, hermeneutics, and how these are linked to the historicity of the QurКѕДЃn. It is reading it according to why the QurКѕДЃn was revealed to mankind. Reading the QurКѕДЃn as an ethical text is therefore reading it exactly how classical tradition understood it to be read. Religion helped us to be truly human, to be homo ethicus. Religion was a vehicle to guide people towards the highest virtues of truth and justice. In classical thought, human uniqueness was defined by our intellect, and more importantly, by our capability for virtue. Therefore, the pursuit for a perpetual QurКѕДЃnic relevance could also be seen as a pursuit for what makes us humans relevant. The QurКѕДЃn, as a religious text, is therefore a text that represents our uniqueness it defines us as homo religiosus. The QurвЂ™an and the Just Societyis an important attempt towards providing a hermeneutics of continuity as a response to what Ramon Harvey calls, вЂњthe QurвЂ™anic pledge for perpetual relevance.вЂќ In modern thought, it is religion, the search for meaning, which makes us humans unique within the realm of life. Part II will analyze his proposed interpretations of the QurКѕДЃnic verses. This article is part I of the book review, reflecting on Ramon HarveyвЂ™s methodology. The QurвЂ™an and the Just Society (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018).

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