Interpreting the Bible and the Qur’an through Love

Scripture, Love, and Hermeneutics

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Interpreting the Bible and the Qur’an through Love

Scripture, Love, and Hermeneutics

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This book investigates the role of love as an exegetical resource for interpreting the Bible and the Qur'an.

Through surveying the ways in which love has and can be used to make sense of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures, this book advocates and argues for a hermeneutical approach that reads the Bible and the Qur'an through the lens of love. Engaging various exegetical authorities from the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions, Tareq Hesham Moqbel identifies numerous cases of love-informed exegesis covering diverse themes and exegetical techniques.

The exegetical dialogue presented in this book shows that the idea of love takes on greater meaning when studied from the standpoint of comparative exegesis. Moreover, by analysing this topic through a comparative lens, the book argues for a novel conceptualisation of love as an exegetical tool, and a reading ethic, that connects the Abrahamic scriptural traditions and can be applied beyond them.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Conventions and Style
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Framework
3. God's Love
4. Humanity's Love for God
5. Social and Worldly Love
6. Postscript
Bibliography
Index of Biblical Verses
Index of Qur'anic Verses
General Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 13 Nov 2025
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 272
ISBN 9781350424876
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Tareq Hesham Moqbel

Tareq Hesham Moqbel is a Research Fellow at Regent…

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