An Egyptian Female Mufassir: Kariman Hamza and Her Tafsir Named<i> al-Lul'u'wa</i> al-Marjan fiTafsiral-Qura'n

This study incvolves the analysis of al-Lu'lu' wa'l-Marjan fi Tafsir al-Qur'an of Kariman Hamza (1942-2023), one of the Egyptian female mufessir (exegete), and the determination of the tafsir (exegesis) method she followed. In this context, the life of Kariman Hamza was researched, and the methods of her tafsir al-Lu'lu' wa'l-Marjan were analyzed in terms of riw & amacr;ya (narration) and diraya (reasoning). A qualitative research method was used in this study. The author's work was systematically examined from beginning to end and evaluated using the document analysis method. However, Kariman Hamza, whose main profession is news reporter and television presenter, initially refused the request to interpret/exegesis the Qur'& amacr;n for children because she was not a graduate of al-Azhar-Azhar University. Later, as a result of various requests, her interest in the Qur'& amacr;n and her television programmes on the subject, she decided to write a tafsir. . Her tafsir is a three-volume work that she wrote in three years, focusing on tafsir studies, and was approved by Al-Azhar-Azhar University. Kariman Hamza sees the writing of her tafsir on the basis of her religious programme and Islamic writings in her 35 years of broadcasting life and sees it as the fruit of her efforts to preach Islam. Kariman Hamza, who stated that the reader can read her tafsir without being bored and that she wrote like a mother explaining something to her child, is one of the rare female writers who tafsir the Qur'& amacr;n from beginning to end. The fact that there are very few studies on alLu'lu' wa al-Marjan is one of the factors that makes this work unique. Analyzing the work in terms of the tafsir method makes a significant contribution to the literature. The most distinctive aspect of the tafsir is the comparative presentation of quotations from the Bible and the attempt to make connections with current events. One of the results of this article is that Kariman Hamza's tafsir, , which she compiled from many sources of tafsir and combined with her knowledge of the Qur'& amacr;n and the Sunnah, opens up the discussion of whether it is a tafsir or a compilation work, and raises the question of how to name and interpret such works, examples of which are beginning to appear today, based on the perception of the mufassir in the tafsir tradition.

Journal

ESKIYENI

Year

2024

Issue

54

ISSN

1306-6218

eISSN

2636-8536

DOI

10.37697/eskiyeni.1464219

WoS UID

WOS:001334489500014