Auxiliary and Speculative Sciences: Narrative Interpretation, the Five Sciences, Translation, and Qur’anic Properties
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- Which four subjects are named under al-ʿulūm al-wahmiyyah?
- What extra question is raised by the described reading of prophetic narratives?
- Where does “wa-yuʿallimuka min taʾwīl al-aḥādīth” occur?
- What is required before treating a proposed reading of a narrative as established fact?
- What is the main purpose of refining the five sciences?
- How should a verse containing a ruling and a divine favor be classified?
- What is the title of the Persian translation mentioned?
- Why aim to keep translated word count close to the Arabic?
- Which change could distort a translation’s generality or specificity?
- Why does the author say literal closeness was sometimes relaxed?
- What is the correct relation between the Arabic Qur’an and a Persian translation?
- Which two approaches to special properties are noted?
- Which statement correctly distinguishes supplication from magic?
- What is the status of the reported private disclosure about special properties?
- What does “conditions that no rule comprehensively fixes” mean here?
- How should the reported anticipation of unseen guidance be understood?
- Which statement best accords with the ordinary understanding of istikhārah?
- Which is an example of the primary Qur’anic text?
- Which activity is thematic refinement rather than the wording of revelation itself?
- When may a translator’s explanatory phrase be appropriate?
- Which claim is not established merely by private testimony?
- How do moral lessons from narratives differ from rewriting their explicit details?
- Which expressions can materially change the scope of a ruling if mistranslated?
- What does the author explicitly disavow in the discussion of special properties?
- What is the overarching methodological lesson of the four topics?
- The fourth section mentions the Persian translation Fatḥ al-Raḥmān fī Tarjamat al-Qurʾān.
- Formal closeness in translation must always take precedence over reader comprehension.
- A personal report of a verse’s special effect automatically becomes binding religious law for everyone.
- Considering a messenger’s and community’s circumstances can be compatible with retaining an established narrative.
- In this printed edition, the substantive text ends after the fourth section, followed by the index.