…[2] On al-tafsīr al-mawḍūʿī, see: Johanna Pink, “Striving for a New Exegesis of the Qurʾān”, Oxford Handbook Online (Oxford, 2014). [3] On classical and modern concepts of the maqāṣid al-sharīʿa,…
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