Sadik J. Al-Azm

Ṣādiq Jalāl ʻAẓm

Stefan Wild

Sadik Jalal al-Azm is an internationally respected scholar and political commentator who has offered innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on issues surrounding Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. He is recognised as a principled defender of human rights and has been the main ethical reference for the Syrian revolution. Professor Al-Azm was educated at the American University Beirut, and at Yale in modern European philosophy and has taught at Damascus, Harvard, Princeton, Brandeis, Oslo, Antwerp, Hamburg, and Berlin, his academic specialization being Immanuel Kant and the critique of religious thought. He has been the recipient of the Dr. Leopold-Lucas Prize 2004, the Erasmus Prize 2004, and in March 2013 the Mahmoud Darwish Award for Freedom and Creativity.

Collected Essays in Three Volumes

Secularism, Fundamentalism, and the Struggle for the Meaning of Islam

This book contains the updated papers of an international symposium The Qur an as Text which was held at the University of Bonn in November 1993. This collection intends to break away from the 19th-century paradigm of influences , which seems largely exhausted but still dominates Qur anic studies. Instead, this collection focuses on the literary, the intertextual and the receptional aspects of the Qur anic text. A new approach to the holy book of Islam in the light of modern hermeneutics which is based on modern methods of literary history, text-linguistics, and aesthetics can open the door for a new and more adequate understanding of the Qur an, its role for Islamic religion, and its unique place in the history of world religions today.

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