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Nadir Ansari
University of Toronto
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
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Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
South Asian Studies
Colonialism
Islamic Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
India
Islamic World
Specialties
Modern Qur'an Exegesis (Tafsir) In South Asia
Classical Qur'an Exegesis (Tafsir)
Orientalism And Modern Islamic Reform
Languages
Urdu (native)
English (fluent)
Arabic (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
German (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Hebrew (intermediate)
Greek (elementary)
Education
MA | 2016 | Humanities/Religion | York University, Toronto
Abstracts
The uses and limits of the modernist hermeneutics: Fazlur Rahman’s ‘Double Movement Method’ Supersession or subsumption? The Sunni-Hanafi legal theory, tafsir studies, and the inter-religious dialogue “Tradition Must Be Left Out”: Questioning of the Tafsīr Tradition by the Modernist Islamic Reformers and the Response from the Traditional “Islamist Tafsīr” – The Case of al-Bayḍāwī