The figures of Muhammad throughout history

lsrel2250  2024-2025  Louvain-la-Neuve

The figures of Muhammad throughout history
4.00 credits
30.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Language
French
Main themes
This course focuses on the relationship between the referential Text of Islam in its two variations (Quran and Hadith) and on the different historical contexts which has conditioned it. The course studies the relationship between the two scriptural sources and then delves into the resulting evolutions of Islamic sciences, in relation to essential themes and questions which have animated the debates of Muslim thinkers.
Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 - mastered the basics of the foundations of Muslim religious learning: its referential sources and their origins, their natures, values and scopes;
- understood the production of religious knowledge and its evolutions: the emergence and methodologies of various Islamic sciences and their interrelationships;
- evaluated the development and modes of production of Muslim thought in light of historical discoveries and contemporary contexts.
 
Bibliography
Sources primaires
  • Suyūṭī (Ǧalāl Al-Dīn ʿAbd Al-Raḥmān Al) M. 1505, Al-Itqān Fī ʿUlūm Al-Qurʾān, Beyrouth, Dār Al Ǧīa, 1998, 2 Vols. Vol. I 751 p. ; Vol. II 668 p. / Le parfait vade-mecum des sciences coraniques al-Itqān fī ʿulūm al-Qurʾān de Ğalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī (m. 911/1505), trad. Michel Lagarde, Leiden, Brill, ("Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān ; 13"), 2017, 1460 p.
  • Zarkashī (Badr al-dīn Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-, m. 794/1392), Al-Burhān fī ʿUlūm al-Qurʾān, Taḥqīq Muḥammad Abū-l-Fadhl Ibrāhīm, Al-Ṭabʿa Al-Tāniya, Beyrouth, Dār al-Maʿrifa, 1972, 4 Vols.
Sources secondaires
  • Bell (Richard), A commentary on the Qurʿān. Prepared by Richard Bell; ed. by C. Edmund Bosworth and M. E. J. Richardson, Manchester, University of Manchester, (« Journal of Semitic studies. Monograph»), 1991, 2 vol.
  • Le Coran (al-Qor'ân), trad. de l'arabe par Régis Blachère, ..., Paris, G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1968, 749 p. Réédité dans la collection ("Références Maisonneuve et Larose ; 2005"). ISBN 2-7068-1861-1 (br.) Édit. 2005.
  • Amir-Moezzi (Mohammad-Ali) & Dye (Guillaume) éds., Le Coran des Historiens, 3 T., Paris, Le Cerf, 2019, 2386 p. (dorénavant CdH 1, 2a, 2b). On se rapportera particulièrement à Dye (Guillaume), « le corpus coranique : texte et composition », in Mohammad-Ali Amir-Moezzi & Guillaume Dye, Le Coran des Historiens, Paris, Le Cerf, 2019, 733-846.
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