Ethics in the Qurʾān and the Tafsīr tradition: from the polynoia of scripture to the homonoia of exegesis

This book is about the articulation of ethics in the Qurʾān and the tafsīr tradition. Based on an examination of several apparently problematic Qurʾānic narrative pericopes and how the exegetes grappled with them, the book demonstrates that the moral world of the Qurʾān is polyvalent and non-linear,...