%0 Journal Article
%T WESTERN STUDIES OF THE QURĄŻANIC NARRATIVE: from the Historical Orientation into the Literary Analysis
%A Munirul Ikhwan
%J Al-Jami'ah : Journal of Islamic Studies
%D 2010
%I State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga
%X The beginnings of Western interest in the QurĄŻan can be traced back to the appearance of the first complete translation of the QurĄŻan into Latin by Robert of Ketton in the twelfth century when the Muslim and Western Christian worlds has begun a long-running confrontation. In the eighteenth century, Western scholars began to be interested in studying the history and sources of the QurĄŻan. The QurĄŻanic narrative, which has its parallels in the Judeo-Christian traditions, has been studied from the historical perspective. In this approach, everything in the QurĄŻan that can be also found in earlier scriptures, is considered as borrowed, and every story that the QurĄŻan modifies is viewed as distorted. Recent Western studies have shifted into a new arena, studying the contents and styles of the QurĄŻanic narrative by analyzing its discourse and narrativity. Keywords: Western scholarship, QurĄŻanic studies, Judeo-Christian source
%U http://journal.aljamiah.org/index.php/AJ/article/view/16