Qur'anic Hermeneutics

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Qur'anic Hermeneutics argues for the importance of understanding the polysemous nature of the words in the Quran and outlines a new method of Quranic exegesis called intertextual polysemy. By interweaving science, history and religious studies, Abdulla Galadari introduces a linguistic approach which draws on neuropsychology. This book features examples of intertextual polysemy within the Quran, as well as between the Quran and the Bible. It provides examples that intimately engage with Christological concepts of the Gospels, in addition to examples of allegorical interpretation through inner-Quranic allusions. Galadari reveals how new creative insights are possible, and argues that the Quran did not come to denounce the Gospelwhich is one of the stumbling blocks between Islam and Christianitybut only to interpret it in its own words.