Rereading and interpreting the ideas of leading Muslim thinkers
Moslem Taheri Kalkoshvandi; Zahrasadat Keshavarz
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The present article aims to examine the position of Arabism in the interpretive encounter with the Holy Qur’an in contemporary Islamic thought by focusing on three prominent thinkers in this field. The study adopts a descriptive-analytical method. The literary approach to Qur’anic interpretation ...
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The present article aims to examine the position of Arabism in the interpretive encounter with the Holy Qur’an in contemporary Islamic thought by focusing on three prominent thinkers in this field. The study adopts a descriptive-analytical method. The literary approach to Qur’anic interpretation represents one of the most influential intellectual movements in contemporary Arab thought. This approach was pioneered by thinkers such as Muhammad Abduh, Taha Hussein, Amin al-Khouli, Shukri Muhammad Ayyad, Bint al-Shati, and later developed by their students, including Muhammad Ahmad Khalafullah, Mahdi Allam, and Nasr Hamed Abu Zayd. The central claim of this movement is that the Qur’an is the greatest literary work that has immortalized the Arabic language. Consequently, the primary purpose of Qur’anic interpretation should not be viewed as the pursuit of understanding, guidance, or divine mercy for humanity. Rather, the Qur’an should be approached as a cultural phenomenon. This perspective reduces the status of the Holy Qur’an from a revealed book—traditionally regarded in Islamic civilization as an active guide for realizing humanity’s divine potential—to a cultural artifact that merely reflects the characteristics of Arab-Islamic civilization. It suggests that the study of this divine book is not a matter of faith, but rather a literary endeavor open to any Arabic speaker or anyone interested in the Arabic language. Accordingly, individuals are free to approach the Qur’an from their own standpoint and pursue their personal intellectual purposes. The main objective of this article is to explore the role of the cultural features of Arabism in the interpretive engagement with the Holy Qur’an and to critically assess the implications of such an approach.
Rereading and interpreting the ideas of leading Muslim thinkers
hamid parsania; moslem taheri
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of human perception in the formation of human societies and their evolution in Farabi's civil science; In other words, the aim of this study was to evaluate Farabi approach to human communities of the origin of differences in levels of perception in a society.Methodology ...
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of human perception in the formation of human societies and their evolution in Farabi's civil science; In other words, the aim of this study was to evaluate Farabi approach to human communities of the origin of differences in levels of perception in a society.Methodology In this study, using exploratory and descriptive-analytic approach and is tried the views of This Muslim thinker about the issue of research, clarify and review.Such research will be organized after the introduction on importance and necessity the issue and to such research, anthropological the principles of knowledge is presented from the perspective of Farabi, Then he discussed the topic of human communities is based. And the principles of cognitive and noncognitive involved in the emergence of these communities will be studied, And in the end discussed to the origin differences in human societies and their relation with the utopia that shows the difference between virtuous and non-virtuous communities.
