Historicity of the Religious Text in Modernist Thought: Muhammad Shahrour as a Model

Abstract

This research is a contribution to the study of historical religious text in modernist thought. It aims to study the concept of modernist thought and the term of historical text among modernists with reference to Muhammad Shahrour. The study also aims to examine ‘modernity’ as a concept and its principles of human centrality, relativism of facts, denial of the primacy of values, and its apparent effects in the dismantling of the structure of the sacred and the abolition of tradition, denying the infallibility of revelation, and re-reading it with a historical approach that change according to the conditions of the addressees. The study seeks to describe this methodology, analyze and critique it with an academic scholarly view and deconstruct it, highlighting its flaws. Moreover, the study is an attempt to prove the infallibility and miraculousness of the Qur’anic revelation and the dominance of its style over eloquent literary styles and its distinction from the historical structural style.