The Qur’anic Text According to the Zahiris: Between the Authority of the Text and the Limits of Interpretation - A Reading in the Thought of Ibn Hazm al-Zahiri

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  • Mouloudj Mohamed Amine, Alioua Amin

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Qur’anic text – textualism – authority of the text – apparent meaning – interpretation (taʾwīl) – Ẓāhirī school – Ibn Ḥazm al-Ẓāhirī

Abstract

Early scholars differed in their views of the Qur’anic text. Some immersed themselves excessivelyin interpretation, to the extent that they diverted certain texts from their intended purposes, as was the case with the Jahmiyya and the Muʿtazila, particularly

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References

Abū Zahra, Muḥammad. Ibn Ḥazm: His Life and Era – His Views and Jurisprudence. Cairo: Dār al-Fikr al-ʿArabī, 2004 .

al-Ḥamawī, Shihāb al-Dīn Yāqūt. Muʿjam al-Udabāʾ (Dictionary of Writers). Edited by Iḥsān ʿAbbās. Tunis: Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī, 1993.

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2026-01-17

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Mouloudj Mohamed Amine, Alioua Amin. (2026). The Qur’anic Text According to the Zahiris: Between the Authority of the Text and the Limits of Interpretation - A Reading in the Thought of Ibn Hazm al-Zahiri . Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 16(1), 1150–1167. Retrieved from https://pegegog.net/index.php/pegegog/article/view/4796

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2026): PEGEGOG

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