EUME
2012/ 2013

Issam Eido

"Not the (path) of those who earn Thine anger nor those who go astray": Traditional Exegesis and the Western Approach

Issam Eido holds a BA (2000) in Islamic Studies from Damascus University. His doctoral dissertation, „The Methodology of Hadith Scholars in Accepting Reports“, was completed in the Quran and Hadith Department at Damascus University (2010). In his dissertation, he analyzed how the criteria for the evaluation of Hadith have changed during the classical period and especially at the onset of modernity. His primary research interests relate to early and classical Quran and Hadīth studies and Muslim intellectual history. Eido has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Sharia (Damascus University) since 2010. He has published and lectured in the fields of Hadith and Qur’anic studies.
In 2005, he founded Dalalah Institute, which offers Western researchers training in classical Arabic language, the traditional Islamic Sciences and Near Eastern Studies.
 

"Not the (path) of those who earn Thine anger nor those who go astray": Traditional Exegesis and the Western Approach

As fellow of EUME, Eido will study both traditional Islamic and Western understandings of the final verse of the Qur’an’s opening surah, Q 1:7. He will first situate the verse in the overall context of the surah, and then use it as a case study to gauge the compatibility and disparity of Islamic and Western approaches to the interpretation of the Qur’an in general.