Muthmainnah, Muthmainnah (2014) ABDULLAH SAEED'S THEORY OF QUR'ANIC. S1 Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Darussalam Gontor.

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Abstract

Contextual interpretation is an effort to interpret Al-Qur'an contextually, offered by Abdullah Saeed, a Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies. He is a director of the Centre for the study of Contemporary Islam at Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia. This contextual interpretation is a theory of understanding Al-Qur'an today to be understood in order to meet the needs of these societies. He formulated this theory under the influence of the Muslims in Australia, mostly the minority of Muslim in that country. He proposed his ideas based on his finding that there is a gap between texts which have been understood literally by majority of ulama' and socio-historical context of the Qur'an at the time of revelation in the first seventh century and the contemporary concerns and needs of Muslims today. He doesn't say explicitly that he apply the hermeneutic theory in his approach, but he agrees that in the modern period, the piecemeal treatment of the Qur'an has worsened ad the formulation of an adequate hermeneutical method is imperative. Based on this, he proposes four stages in interpreting the Qur'an: encounter with the world of texts, critical analysis, meaning for the first recipients and meaning for the present. Therefore, this study is designed to know further and deeper the theory of this concept of interpretation. It's begun from his theoretical base of contextual interpretation until the explanation of his epistemology principles of contextual interpretation which include his models of interpretation. In order to get the maximum result, the researcher used philosophical approach in the theoretical framework. Saeed's contextual interpretation is similar to the hermeneutic liberation grown by Hasan Hanafi, Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, and other Muslim Scholars which argued that audience must be getting right position in the process of interpreting Al-Qur'an, unlike the textual approach that the concern is just focused on text and interpreter without considering audience's situation as context. With descriptive method, where researcher describes all concepts of the figure systematically, analytical method where researcher analyze Saeed's concept of interpretation, and critical method, this research is arranged. In that theoretical framework and such method, the research got the result such, in the effort of interpreting Al-Qur'an, he does not any interpretation toward verses of Al-Qur'an. It is his opinion-where actually he catch from another Muslim Scholars to make the interpretation relevant to the context of nowadays. Such in the verse of wearing veil, he said, in liberal views, veil can be less of covering whole body of woman's. As the result of that, researcher conclude that a contextual interpretation is no more than just an argument of Saeed's which has an effort to make Al-Qur'an is related to the life of Muslim today. And this theory of interpretation has no need to do and has no need to be elaborated into practical way, as this means we are doubting Allah's revelation. And it is frightened if this theory brings all Muslims in ignoring Allah as the author of the Qur'an. Thus, hopefully this humble study will be benefit of the large people, particularly everyone who is interested to study the contemporary issues toward de-sacralization of Al-Qur'an. And hoped there will be other researches explore about this contemporary interpretation or Abdullah Saced better and deeper.

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