God's word, spoken or otherwise: Sayyid Ahmad Khan's (1817-1898) Muslim exegesis of the Bible

Preface -- Notes on Translation and Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1 Approaching the Texts -- 2 Approaching the Context -- 3 Studies on Sayyid Ahmad Khan -- 4 Outline of the Chapters -- 2 The Tabyīn in Context -- 1 The Political Setting -- 2 The Intellectual Environment -- 3 Revelation Recorded -- 4 The British Intellectual Environment -- 5 Sayyid Ahmad's Life and Works -- 6 Conclusion -- 3 On the Bible -- 1 What Is the Significance of the Title Tabyīn al-kalām? -- 2 How Did Sayyid Ahmad Present His Commentaries on the Bible? -- 3 Rationale for a Muslim Reading of the Bible -- 4 Taḥrīf: The Greatest Obstacle to the Tabyīn Project -- 5 Nāsikh wa-mansūkh -- 6 Tabyīn Part 2 -- 7 To Reconcile Scripture and Science -- 8 The Garden: What Did Transpire? -- 9 Conclusion to Genesis -- 10 Tabyīn Part 3 -- 11 The Person of Jesus Christ -- 12 The Words and the Text -- 13 The Counsels of Jesus -- 14 Tafsīr al-Qurʾān -- 15 Jesus's Miraculous Birth -- 16 Jesus Speaks in Infancy -- 17 Jesus Raises the Dead -- 18 Jesus's Heavenly Ascension -- 19 Conclusion -- 4 Prophecy: Rehearsed and Unrehearsed -- 1 To Know What One Knows -- 2 Experience as the Basis of Knowledge -- 3 Experiment as the Way to Knowledge -- 4 Knowledge for Salvation -- 5 The Prophetic Experience -- 6 Differentiating the Rehearsed and the Unrehearsed -- 7 The Inimitable Qurʾan -- 8 The Qurʾan as Text -- 9 Revelation Defined -- 10 Sources for the Adoption of the Taxonomy -- 11 Construction Applied to the Bible -- 12 Revelation Recorded -- 13 Revelation in the Bible -- 14 The New Testament Authors -- 15 Writings Other Than Gospels in the New Testament -- 16 Conclusion -- 5 The Coherence of Revelation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Continuity and Originality -- 3 Scripturalist falsafa -- 4 Conclusion -- 6 Conclusion -- 1 How Did Sayyid Ahmad Conceptualize Prophetic Revelation in the Bible? -- 2 What Did Sayyid Ahmad Understand Himself to Be Doing in Tabyīn? -- References -- Index.