Minding Scripture, Part 9: Qur'an Criticism

Episode Topic: Qur'an Criticism  

What importance do developments in critical scholarship on the Qur’an have for the life of faith? How have Muslims traditionally understood the Qur’an? What were the nineteenth- and twentieth-century beginnings of Western critical scholarship on the Qur’an, and what are its motivating questions today? Where do Western critical scholarship and traditional reading of the Qur’an converge? Do the findings of Western critical scholarship fundamentally challenge traditional Muslim understandings of the Qur’an, and how, more generally, does critical study of the Qur’an affect Muslims’ lives of faith?

Featured Speakers:

• Gabriel Said Reynolds, professor, University of Notre Dame
• Mun’im Sirry, professor, University of Notre Dame

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This podcast is a part of the ThinkND Series titled Minding Scripture. 

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