This seminar is based on the current research of the Collaborative Research Center “Metaphors of Religion” (Sonderforschungsbereich 1475, https://sfb1475.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/en/research/outline/) and deals with metaphoricity as a central principle of religious sense-making in Islam (as well as in other religions). The prominent spatial metaphor of the “straight path” or rather the “straight and solid road” (Ar. al-?irat al-mustaqim) will serve as a reference example.
The seminar will provide exemplary insights into both the scholarship on the emergence of the Qur’an as well as into the tradition of Qur’anic exegesis (Tafsir) and the ways in which exegetes contribute to the creation of religious meaning. In addition, it will provide an introduction to the method of metaphor annotation.
- Kursleiter/in: Johann Büssow
- Kursleiter/in: Annika Jung