Feeling the words: Sayyid Qutb's affective engagement with the Qur'an in Al-Taswir al-Fanni fi al-Qur'an
Twentieth-century Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb has been studied most extensively with respect to his political thought. In his early career, however, he published works of literary criticism, poetry, and works on the Qur'an in which he takes a literary approach. Among these is his 1945 work Al-...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2019]
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Religion compass
Year: 2019, Volume: 13, Issue: 10, Pages: 1-9 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Quṭb, Saiyid 1906-1966, At- Taṣwīr al-fannī fi 'l-Qurʾān
/ Koran
/ Affective bonding
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam |
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| Summary: | Twentieth-century Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb has been studied most extensively with respect to his political thought. In his early career, however, he published works of literary criticism, poetry, and works on the Qur'an in which he takes a literary approach. Among these is his 1945 work Al-Taswir al-Fanni fi al-Qur'an (Artistic Imagery in the Qur'an), in which he presents a unified theory of Qur'anic style called artistic imagery (al-taṣwīr al-fannī). This paper argues that Qutb's engagement with the Qur'an in this work is one that relies on affect as a nondiscursive interpretive framework. In so doing, it suggests that Qutb's early artistic works, particularly those on the Qur'an, deserve more extended scholarly attention than they have received, as well as an extension of affect theory to consider encounters with textual traditions. |
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| ISSN: | 1749-8171 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/rec3.12338 |