Open AccessResponse to Karen Bauer’s Review of The Study Quran
Author(s) -
Maria Massi Dakake,
Joseph E. B. Lumbard
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
american journal of islam and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2690-3741
pISSN - 2690-3733
DOI - 10.35632/ajis.v35i1.822
Subject(s) - reading (process) , representation (politics) , selection (genetic algorithm) , ideology , key (lock) , citation , front (military) , space (punctuation) , epistemology , computer science , sociology , philosophy , linguistics , law , library science , political science , politics , artificial intelligence , geography , computer security , meteorology
In her review of The Study Quran in AJISS (34:4), Karen Bauer makes anumber of broad claims about the authors’ ideology and methodology, particularlyin producing the commentary that accompanies the translation.Her claims regarding the commentary, however, seem to be based on alimited reading of the text, which has led her to make a number of otherwiseinexplicable factual errors. For example, in assessing the SQ authors’selection, use, and representation of Islamic tafsīr sources in the commentary,she overlooks the note in the front matter entitled, “Understanding theCitations in the Commentary”—which makes it clear that, in the interest ofsaving space, the citation of various commentaries as sources for the opinionsmentioned in the Study Quran commentary is done through a systemof abbreviations, for which a key is provided on pages lvii-lix ...