LFU:online

The students should get a historical-systemic insight into the different disciplines of the Koran sciences. They should be able to know the most important sub-disciplines and apply them for the understanding and interpretation of the Koran.

The history of revelation and the creation of the Koran and the various disciplines of the Qur'anic sciences, the types of revelation (Wahy), the collection of the Koran, the reasons for the submission, Makki and Madani Ayat and Sure, classification of the Suras and the Ayat, distinct and ambiguous ones (Muhkam and Mutashabih) Ayat, Abrogation (Nasikh and Mansukh) and other sub-disciplines of the Koranic sciences that are important for the context of the world understanding of the Koran.

Lecture, discussion, presentation

oral examination online

Çinar, Hüseyin İlker (2017): Koranwissenschaften und Koranexegese. Eine Einführung. Mannheim: IFIS&IZ Publications (Reihe, Band 1).

Krawulsky, Dorothea (2006): Eine Einführung in die Koranwissenschaften. 'Ulūm al-Qur'ān. Bern [u.a.]: Peter Lang (Welten des Islams, 1).

Omari, Dina el (2017): Einführung in die Koranwissenschaften. Freiburg im Breisgau: Kalam Verlag KG (Studienreihe "Islamische Theologie", Band 5)

Denffer, Ahamed: Ulum al-Quran - Einführung in die Koranwissenschaft. Karlsruhe 2006

Helmut Gätje: Koran und Koranexegese. Zürich 1971. 

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The course contains synchronous and asynchronous parts. More information in the course.