REL 419 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hijab, Ijtihad
5 Jan 2017
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Death of the author the death of the author is the birth of the reader: we leave the meaning up to the reader. Qur"anic interpretation: use of sources from qur"an, hadiths, law (sharia-god"s law, fiqh-human attempt to construct god"s law), and qur"anic commentaries issues of language and translation to read a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)terpret qur"a(cid:374) you (cid:374)eed . Accurate understanding of cultural and social norms at the time that the. Need to understand that there is always going to be a certain level of ambiguity laws are made by those with the assumption that the information in the. Hard to adapt to the time period and social norms and values of that era. Quran is not specific and is very vague. A lot of muslims do not know enough arabic to read the qur"an. Meaning/spirit of entire qur"an: all accounts from muslims, accounts from the male elite.
