Textuality and Intertextuality in Contemporary Qur’anic Exegesis: A Comparative Study of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd and Angelika Neuwirth
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Contemporary exegesis, Quranic textuality, Quranic intertextuality, Nasr Hāmid Abū Zayd, Angelika NeuwirthAbstract
Contemporary Qur’anic scholarship has developed influential accounts of textuality and intertextuality, yet the studies reviewed here usually examine these approaches separately. Their different treatments of textual coherence, historical communication, and present-day relevance require a comparison that specifies how methodological integration could work. This study compares Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd and Angelika Neuwirth to formulate a conceptual framework for contemporary Qur’anic interpretation. A qualitative literature study uses a history-of-ideas perspective and structured comparative analysis. Primary writings and selected secondary studies are examined through five indicators: textual concepts, historical context, interpretive units, intertextual relations, and contemporary contextualization. A shared Maryam passage illustrates the proposed sequence. The comparison identifies a shared commitment to historically situated language but different explanatory priorities. Abu Zayd distinguishes historical meaning from renewed significance, whereas Neuwirth connects surah composition, oral communication, and late antique interlocutors. These are overlapping emphases rather than mutually exclusive methods. Their integration requires linguistic and surah analysis, historically controlled comparison with related texts, and an explicit justification of contemporary significance. The contribution is a staged framework that distinguishes textual evidence, historical hypotheses, and normative inference. Its Maryam illustration clarifies the procedure without validating a complete exegetical model; systematic application to further passages remains necessary.
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