The Arab Modernists and the Quranic Text
by Jilani Ben Touhami Meftah
Publisher - University of Malaya Press
Category - Language & Dictionary
There is no specialized scientific study that ever draws on the phenomenon of the modernists’
understanding of al‐Qur’an through a lengthy critical analysis within its historical and epistemic contexts
except for few commentary writings.
In order to accomplish such critical assessing work within the requirements of scientific research, this
book has been divided into five chapters. The first chapter addresses the historical background of the
phenomenon; that is surveying the political, economic and intellectual factors that were instrumental in
the rise of the phenomenon of understanding the holy Qur’an from the modernist lens, particularly,
during the last three decades, and certainly not before. The second chapter provides critical analytical
insights on the Arab Modernists’ outlook towards the mechanisms of the conventional orthodox
methodology in Islamic exegesis along with the modernists’ excuses to relinquish thereof. The third
chapter focuses on presenting and evaluating the most important methodologies allegedly used by Arab
modernists to apprehend the holy Qur’an. The fourth chapter was designed to lay out some modernist
interpretations in respect to the theological and intellectual aspect. These interpretations were,
thereupon, thoroughly examined so as to determine the extent of its consistency and origination. The
fifth chapter deliberates over some modernist interpretations in regard to the legislative and
jurisprudential issues. In the Conclusion, the writer summarizes the major points of his research and put
them in a general framework so that readers can come up with a clear overview of the research
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