This article examines how three leading exegetes of the MuÊ¿tazilite school tradition â Ê¿Abd al-JabbÄr (d. 415/1025), JishumÄ« (d. 494/1101), and ZamakhsharÄ« (d. 538/1144) â conceptualized the QurʾÄnic idea of covenant in divergent ways. It also illustrates how they related the idea of covenant to their broader thought world to forge an interpretation of the meaning of human history and salvation. It argues that these three commentators, although they are linked to one another by a loose form of teacher-student discipleship, share only basic ideas and applied hermeneutical devices and interpretive principles in considerably different ways. It is unlikely that they relied on one another when they composed their commentaries.
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This article examines how three leading exegetes of the MuÊ¿tazilite school tradition â Ê¿Abd al-JabbÄr (d. 415/1025), JishumÄ« (d. 494/1101), and ZamakhsharÄ« (d. 538/1144) â conceptualized the QurʾÄnic idea of covenant in divergent ways. It also illustrates how they related the idea of covenant to their broader thought world to forge an interpretation of the meaning of human history and salvation. It argues that these three commentators, although they are linked to one another by a loose form of teacher-student discipleship, share only basic ideas and applied hermeneutical devices and interpretive principles in considerably different ways. It is unlikely that they relied on one another when they composed their commentaries.
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