Interpreting the Qur'an

According to the reading, there are religious laws in Islam like many religions called Shiri'a. Although they are called religious "laws" actual legislative amendments can't be made to them but different interpretations can be made from them, which reminded me of our first topic hermeneutics.  This thought of interpreting differently made me think of one particular example that   many Christians and I, in my opinion, think about. The Bible doesn't specify much about drinking some people think that Christians shouldn't drink at all and others think that it's okay to drink as long as you don't get drunk. This was a prime example to me that clarified how different interpretations of religious texts is possible and can be completely different. So, people who believe in the same religion have the same belief, but can also have different beliefs. 

The Qur'an can be interpreted through tradition based exegesis, which is more conservative and based more on the religious text itself, or reason based exegesis, which is the more liberal approach to it. All Qur'anic texts can also be classified into many options of two ideas, such as clear and ambiguous or literal and metaphorical. There are six classifications and literal and metaphorical was the most interesting to me. I completely agreed with the idea that interpreting a text as literally or metaphorically can change the meaning completely. 

As a woman, the female exegesis stood out to me as well. However, all the different ways to interpret and all the exegesis were hard to keep up with because there were so many.