Al-Jabri and His Introduction to the Qur’ān

Abstract

This chapter examines the late work of al-Jabri madkhal ilā al-qur’ān al-karīmMadkhal ilā al-qur’ān al-karīm, 2006—[Introduction to the Noble Qur’ān]—with which he intended an explanation of a new methodological approach for a better understanding of the Qur’ān. His proposal, which comprises an introduction [madkhal] and a commentary work, fahm al-qur’ān al-ḥakīm: al-tafsīr al-wāḍiḥ ḥasaba tartīb al-nuzūlTartīb al-nuzūl, 2008—[The understanding of the Wise Qur’an: Clear Exegesis According to the Sequence of RevelationRevelation] of the sacred Text—leads into a reflection on the phenomenon of the Qur’an with regard to its relation to time, its identity and its purpose. In this undertaking of his, he makes use of the disjunctive-reconjunctive theory whose principles are presented in his work naḥnu wa al-turāth, 1993—[Us and the Tradition].