a critical approach to rudi paret’s interpretive approach to qur’anic stories

Qur'anic stories are among the topics that interest orientalists and have been analyzed differently. insome orientalist works, attention has been paid to the whole story, and in others, some details havebeen focused on. german orientalist, rudi paret, has presented a concise interpretation of qur'anicstories in the book the qur'an commentary and concordance. in this article, we will review hisopinions in this field. the results of this article indicate that despite paret's attention to theinterpretation of verses with other verses and referring to the tradition of islamic interpretation, relyingon the information of the bible and relying too much on the oriental tradition before him caused hismisunderstanding of some stories. his focus is on some details in qur'anic stories such as the meaningof the words hettah and raqeem, which conflict with the islamic interpretation tradition in most cases.

a critical approach to rudi paret’s interpretive approach to qur’anic stories

qur'anic stories are among the topics that interest orientalists and have been analyzed differently. insome orientalist works, attention has been paid to the whole story, and in others, some details havebeen focused on. german orientalist, rudi paret, has presented a concise interpretation of qur'anicstories in the book the qur'an commentary and concordance. in this article, we will review hisopinions in this field. the results of this article indicate that despite paret's attention to theinterpretation of verses with other verses and referring to the tradition of islamic interpretation, relyingon the information of the bible and relying too much on the oriental tradition before him caused hismisunderstanding of some stories. his focus is on some details in qur'anic stories such as the meaningof the words hettah and raqeem, which conflict with the islamic interpretation tradition in most cases.