The Journal of Scriptural
Reasoning
Volume 5, No. 1 — April 2005
Islam and Scriptural
Reasoning
General Editors
William Elkins, Drew University
Willie Young, King's College, Pennsylvania
Associate
Editor
Kurt Richardson, McMaster University
Founding Editor
Peter Ochs, University of Virginia
Editorial
Assistant
Patrick Lyons, King's College, Pennsylvania
EDITORS PREFACE:
Scriptural
Reasoning, Hermeneutics, and Public
Discourse
Willie Young, Co-editor
ARTICLES:
The Nature
of Scriptural Reasoning in Islam
Abdulaziz Sachedina, University of Virginia
Learning to
Ask Questions:
The Cases of Abraham and Noah (p) in the
Quran
Isra Umeyye Yazicioglu, University of Virginia
Principles
of Qur�anic Hermeneutics
Yamina Mermer, Indiana University
Interpreting
Political Violence in Islamic
Philosophy
Mohammad Azadpur, San Francisco State
University
SCRIPTURAL REASONING IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE:
Beyond the
End-Time: the Temporality of the Biblical
Promise
Randi Rashkover, York College of Pennsylvania
"The Journey" and
"The Waiting": Two Poems
Heather Murray Elkins, Casperson School of
Theological Studies, Drew University