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Islam and literalism : literal meaning and interpretation in Islamic legal theory by Robert Gleave is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Islam and literalism : literal meaning and interpretation in Islamic legal theory about?
Traces the emergence and development of the idea of literal meaning in Islamic legal hermeneutics The idea of literal meaning - the meaning a text or statement has, regardless of what its author intends to convey or its audience understands to be its message - is here used as an analytical tool to inform a reading of Islamic legal hermeneutics with the insights of modern semantic and pragmatic philosophers. Author Robert Gleave argues that there have been various competing notions of literal mea
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Robert Gleave
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780748655533
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Law, Theology, Koran & Sacred Writings
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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