Modern Quranic Hermeneutics: Abdulkarim Soroush on the Expansion of Prophetic Experience
Modern Quranic Hermeneutics: Abdulkarim Soroush on the Expansion of Prophetic Experience
Author(s): Abdullah Rexhepi, İsa MemishiSubject(s): Anthropology, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Education, Psychology, History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Non-European Philosophy, Special Branches of Philosophy, Sociology, Theology and Religion, Islam studies, Comparative Studies of Religion, Philosophy of Middle Ages, East Asian Philosophy, Middle-East Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Adult Education, Higher Education , State/Government and Education, Social psychology and group interaction, Comparative Psychology, Personality Psychology, History of Islam, Contemporary Islamic Thought, Hermeneutics, Inclusive Education / Inclusion, Sociology of Religion, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: modern Quranic hermeneutics; Abdulkarim Soroush; Revelation; expanding prophetic experience; Islamic orthodoxy
Summary/Abstract: . Since early times, Muslims have speculated on the nature of Revelation and the Divine Speech. This has resulted in Muslim scholars developing divergent approaches to this problem. With the constitution of the orthodoxy, the former school became dominant and it postulated that the Quran is the Word of God dictated to Prophet Muhammad through the angel Jabrail. However, during the last decades in Iran emerged scholars, such as Abdulkarim Soroush, who proposed new approaches to understanding and interpreting Revelation. This paper discusses the hermeneutical project put forward by Soroush by discussing his article on the “Expansion of Prophetic Experience”. In this article, the author argues that his modern hermeneutics is radically different from orthodox theology and problematizes that the idea that the Quran as a human creation brings about other implications outside theology, such as for instance opening the Muslim thought and liberating it from scriptural readings.
Journal: Философия
- Issue Year: 29/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 52-67
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
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