DOI: https://doi.org/10.36719/2706-6185/54/84-91
Kassoul Tabet
Djilali Liabès University of Sidi Bel Abbès - Algeria
https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3632-8776
kassoul.tabet@gmail.com
Religious Text and the Strategy of Reading in the Thought of
Mohammed Arkoun
Abstract
Many thinkers and critics seek to draw upon contemporary philosophical and critical methodologies to read religious texts and subject them to these frameworks. Among such intellectuals is Mohammed Arkoun, who endeavoured to establish and apply what he termed "Applied Islamology,” in contrast to the prevailing notion of “Classical Islamology.” The purpose behind Arkoun’s creation of this new conceptualisation was to break away from the classical notions that enveloped the Islamic mind, rendering it incapable of keeping pace with the spirit of modern humanist thought. Arkoun called for the formation of a renaissance capable of transcending the prohibitions that confined intellectual activity and the movements that excluded the questions accompanying the formative stage of Islam.
Keywords: historical criticism, humanism, Qur’anic event, Sunnah, hermeneutical reason, displacement