The term ulū’l-amr (those in authority) is central to the Muslim understanding of leadership, although it has been understood differently by different scholars. appears twice Qur’an, namely verses 59 and 83 chapter 4 (sūrat al-Nisā’), which serve as cornerstone starting point entire religious, social, political structure Islam. This article carefully examines early exegesis Qur’anic how two hav...

For Foucault, Freud – as Nietzsche and Marx is not an author to put under exegesis, but a generator of discursivity that opened new possibilities for thinking. This article attributes the same role Foucault. By reconstructing Foucault’s understanding father psychoanalysis, it contributes history political philosophy at time present.

Like any form of interpretive writing but in its own distinctive way, rabbinic midrash functions both as a response to elements of the text (exegesis) and as a medium through which the interpreters speak to their own context (cultural expression). One notable feature of aggadic midrash is the practice of telling extrabiblical stories about biblical figures. Even the telling of these stories rep...

Minor Mountain Elohim, Feminine Face of Yahweh and Assyrian Apotropaic Fad. Some Remarks on the Margins of: Izaak J. de Hulster, Joel M. LeMon, Image, Text, Exegesis. Iconographic Interpretation Hebrew Bible (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015), pp. 336.