na INLIS000000000003473 20200508202320 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 9781851681211 010-0520003473 eng 297.272 297.272/ESA/Q Faried Esack Qur'an, LIberation and Pluralism : An Islamic Perspectives of Interreligious Solidarity Against Oppression Cet. 1 Rockport, USA MIZAN 1997 xii, 288 p. ; 23 cm. 23 cm. Indeks : indeks p.273-282 The Demise of apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s followed an unprecedented unity in strunggle against oppression from members of different faith traditions. Determined as South African Muslim were to participate with rest of the opperessed in solidarity against apartheid, this brought them into conflict with interpretations of the Qur'an that denied virtue outside Islam, and left them searching for theology that would allow them to both co-operate against injustice and be true to their faith. In this challenging account, reflects on key quranic passages used in the context of oppression to rethink the role of Islam in a plural society.He exposes how traditional interpretations of the Quran were used to legitimize an unjust order, and demonstrates that those very texts used to support religious intolerance, if interpreted within a contemporary socio-historical context, support active solidarity with the religious other for changes. Koran - Criticism, interpretation, etc Liberation theology. Apartheid - Religious aspects - Islam.