M. Brett Wilson (Macalest Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Translating the Qur'an in an Age of Nationalism

Print Culture and Modern Islam in Turkey

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Produktbeschreibung

This work explores how the Qur'an became a modern book, and examines the debates surrounding Islamic national identity in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Qur'anic Studies Series
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 177mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780198719434
• ISBN-10: 0198719434
• Artikelnr.: 47868475

Autorenporträt

Brett Wilson is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Macalester College. He holds a PhD in Religion with a specialization in Islamic Studies from Duke University. His scholarship has appeared in the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Comparative Islamic Studies, and The Encyclopaedia of Women in Islamic Cultures.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: 'The Mother of Civilisation': The Printing Press and Illegal
Qur'ans
* 2: Ottoman Editions of the Qur'an
* 3: Vernacular Commentaries and the New Intellectuals
* 4: The Politicization of Qur'anic Translation: From the New Arabism
to the Young Turks
* 5: Translation and the Nation
* 6: Caliph and Qur'an: English Translations, Egypt Debates, and the
Search for a Centre
* 7: The Elusive Turkish Qur'an
* Conclusion: The Ubiquitous Modern Qur'an
* Bibliography