“The Contemporary Interpretation of the Holy Quran” [= “The Study Quran”] is one of the latest Quranic researches in the West, entitled “The Study Quran” was published in 2015 in San Francisco, under the editorship of Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Given that this interpretation has been written in the Western world, it is important to critique it and pay attention to the interpretive method of this exegesis. Although the title of the translation of this commentary is “The Contemporary Interpretation of the Holy Quran”; but this interpretation cannot be considered as a modern and up-to-date commentary on the Holy Quran. This research uses library resources [= desk research] and descriptively-analytically to examine the methodology of this interpretation. The results of the research indicate that this exegesis has used the traditionalist [= Perennial Philosophical] method to cite the quotations of the earlier commentators of the two major Islamic sects [of Shia and Sunni]. The most important characteristics of social interpretation of the Quran are: paying attention to the verses of the Quran to solve social problems, applying Quranic teachings and appropriate answers to eliminate the social doubts, paying attention to the pedagogical teachings of the Quran, using a clear and all-understandable expression, paying attention to rationalism, paying attention to authentic sciences in interpreting the verses of the Quran, refraining from interpreting the ambiguities [mubhamat] of the Quran, avoiding the wide range of theological, literary, jurisprudential debates and differences in recitations [qira’at], avoiding the forged narrations and Israelites; This exegesis has adhered to only three characteristics i.e. using a clear and all-understandable expression, avoiding the interpreting the ambiguities [mubhamat] of the Quran, and voiding the wide range of theological, literary, jurisprudential debates and differences in recitations [qira’at]. Hence, such an interpretation with a traditionalist [= Perennial Philosophical] approach, contrary to the title of “contemporary”, causes the neglecting of the Quran in the Western world and prevents the pedagogical, guiding, and social teachings of the Quran from the lovers of Quran in the Western world.
The Holy Quran, Translated by Muhammad Ali Rezaei Esfahani and A Group of Professors of Al-Mustafa University, Al-Mustafa International Center for Translation and Publication, Qom: 2nd Edition, 2009.
Abu Shubhah, Muhammad bin Muhammad, Islaeliyat wa al-Mawdhoa’t fi Kutub al-Tafsri [Israelites and Forged Narrations in the Books of Exegesis], Maktabah al-Sunnah, Cairo: 1408 AH.
Alavi Mehr, Hossein, Introduction to the History of the Exegesis and Interpreters, World Center for Islamic Sciences, Qom: 2005.
Ayazi, Seyyed Muhammad Ali, Al-Mufassiron; Hayatuhum wa Manhajuhum [The Interpreters; Their Biography and Method], Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Tehran: 1414 AH.
_________________________, Quran and Modern Interpretation, Islamic Culture [Farhag Islami], Tehran: 1997.
Dhahabi, Muhammad Hussein, Al- Islaeliyat fi Tafsir wa al-Hadith [Israelites the Exegesis and Hadith], Maktabah Wahbah, Cairo: 1411 AH.
_________________________, Al-Tafsir wa al-Mufassiron [The Exegesis and Interpreters], Dar al-Kutub al-Hadithah, Beirut: 2nd Edition, 1396 AH.
Fadhlullah, Muhammad Hossein, Tafsir min Wahj al-Qurah [Interpretation of the Revelation of Quran], Dar al-Malak for Printing and Publications, Beirut: 1419 AH.
Khazʼili, Muhammad, A’lam -e- Quran [Index of Persons in Quran], Amirkabir, Tehran: 1992.
Ma’refat, Muhammad Hadi, The Exegesis and Interpreters, Al-Tamhid Publications, Qom: 1994.
Maraghi, Ahmad Mustafa, Tafsir al-Maraghi, Dar Ihya al-Turath al-Arabi, Beirut: N.p.
Modarresi, Seyyed Muhammad Taqi, Min Huda al-Quran [From the Guidance of Quran], Dar Muhy al-Hossein, Tehran: 1419 AH.
Mughniyya, Muhammad Jawad, Al-Tafsir al-Kashif [The Discovering Exegesis], Dar al-Kitab al-Islami, Qom: 1424 AH.
Nasr, Sayyid Hussein, In Search of the Sacred; Ramin Jahanbegloo’s Interview with Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Translated by Seyyed Mustafa Shaheedaeini, Ney Publishing, Tehran: 2nd Edition, 2006.
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, The Contemporary Interpretation of the Holy Quran, Translated by Inshallah Rahmati, Sofia Publications, Tehran: 2020.
Rashid Raza, Tafsir al-Quran al-Hakim al-Shaheer bi Tafsir al-Manar [The Exegesis of Holy Quran Famous by Tafsir al-Manar], Dar al-Ma’rifah, Beirut: 2nd Edition, N.p.
Rezaei Esfahani, Muhammad Ali, Rawishra wa Garaishhaye Tafsir Quran [The Methods and Trends of Quranic Interpretation], World Center for Islamic Studies, Qom: 2003.
____________________________ & Hosseini Ramsheh, Seyyed Sa’eed, “A Study of Contemporary Pedagogical Interpretations”, Journal of Quran and Science, Volume 13, Number 24, 2019.
Rumi, Fahad bin Abd al-Rahman bin Suleiman, Minhaj al-Madrasah al-Aqliyyah al-Hadithah fi al-Tafsir [The Method of Modern Rational School of Thought in Exegesis], Muassasah al-Risalah, Beirut: 1407.
Sayyid Qutb, Fi Zilal al-Quran [In the Shade of the Quran], Dar al-Shuruq, Cairo / Beirut: 1412 AH.
Shahriari, Soroosh; Rustom, Mohammed. “Neo-Orientalism and the Study of Islamic Philosophy: An Interview with Professor Mohammed Rustom”. Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies. Indiana University Press, 2018.
Shaltut, Mahmud, Tafsir al-Quran al-Karim [The Exegesis of Holy Quran], Dar al-Shuruq, Cairo: 1408 AH.
Shaqavi, Iffat, Al-Fikr al-Dini fi Muwajahah al-Asr (Ittijahat al-Tafsir fi Misr fi al-Asr al-Jadid) [The Religious Thought Confronting the Time (Approaches of Interpretation in Egypt in the Modern Era)], Dar al-‘Awdah, Beirut: 3rd Edition, 1979.
Suyuti, Jalaluddin, Al-Itqan fi Uloom al-Quran [The Perfect Guide to the Sciences of the Quran], Dar Ibn Kathir Damascus, Beirut: 1421 AH.
Tabatabai, Muhammad Hossein, Al-Mizan fi Tafsir Al-Quran, Daftar Intisharat Islami Jami’ah Modarrisin, Qom: 1417 AH.
Zailan, Moris, The Biography and Works of Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, in: Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, Islamic Rational Tradition in Iran, Translated by Saeed Dehqani, Qaseedeh Sara, Tehran: 2004.
SHOAEY, A. A. and Akbar Farahi Bakhshayish, A. (2021). Critique of Social tendency of “The Contemporary Interpretation of the Holy Quran” [= “The Study Quran”]. The Qur’an from Orientalists Point of View, 16(30), 82-107. doi: 10.22034/qkh.2021.5948
MLA
SHOAEY, A. A. , and Akbar Farahi Bakhshayish, A. . "Critique of Social tendency of “The Contemporary Interpretation of the Holy Quran” [= “The Study Quran”]", The Qur’an from Orientalists Point of View, 16, 30, 2021, 82-107. doi: 10.22034/qkh.2021.5948
HARVARD
SHOAEY, A. A., Akbar Farahi Bakhshayish, A. (2021). 'Critique of Social tendency of “The Contemporary Interpretation of the Holy Quran” [= “The Study Quran”]', The Qur’an from Orientalists Point of View, 16(30), pp. 82-107. doi: 10.22034/qkh.2021.5948
CHICAGO
A. A. SHOAEY and A. Akbar Farahi Bakhshayish, "Critique of Social tendency of “The Contemporary Interpretation of the Holy Quran” [= “The Study Quran”]," The Qur’an from Orientalists Point of View, 16 30 (2021): 82-107, doi: 10.22034/qkh.2021.5948
VANCOUVER
SHOAEY, A. A., Akbar Farahi Bakhshayish, A. Critique of Social tendency of “The Contemporary Interpretation of the Holy Quran” [= “The Study Quran”]. The Qur’an from Orientalists Point of View, 2021; 16(30): 82-107. doi: 10.22034/qkh.2021.5948
)
