<論考>日本におけるスーフィー的クルアーン解釈研究の現状と課題 --欧米とトルコとの比較を通して--

Abstract

This study is an attempt to grasp the present situation of Sufi Tafsīr studies in Japan, the West, and Turkey to understand the global academic trend in the genre. The article first provides a brief introduction to the concept of Sufi Tafsīr by describing related terms such as al-tafsīr al-ishārī (allusive interpretation), and kashf (mystical vision) along with a few typical examples of mystical commentaries. Then, the study traces the formative history of Sufi Tafsīr research in the three respective regions by reviewing the existing studies as well as discussing some of the achievements of and the issues with each research. The findings reveal that although Sufi Tafsīr studies in Japan had a late start as the first examples emerged only during the late 90s, Japanese researchers soon succeeded in producing results with a similar outlook as that of the West and the Muslim world. Finally, the study suggests that since Japanese Sufi Tafsīr research holds a more objective stance between the impenitent criticism of the orientalists and the unnecessarily apologetical reactions of Muslim researchers, it has the potential to lead the international academia if the researchers in Japan focus on the medieval ages, especially after the 14th century, and on the sharhs (commentary) and hāshiyas (supercommentary books), of the Ottoman Era, of which plenty works can be found.