Religious Anthropology as an Epistemological Approach to Modernist Thought’s Engagement with the Qur’anic Text – An Analytical and Critical Study

Abstract

The study aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of religious anthropology in presenting interpretations characterized by innovation, according to the claim of modernists who made man the starting point for every interpretation of the Holy Quran without considering the specificity of holiness. Also, the modernists’ keenness to limit innovation to anthropological interpretation is not viewed innocently because it is an application of a scientific method to a field far from its specialization.

It also revealed the dimensions that work with anthropological interpretation leads to, from saying that the Holy Qur’an is human, on the pretext that what was written in the language that humans understand is therefore human, which refers to the necessity of changing the meanings of the Qur’an, adding or subtracting, according to what the interpreter’s needs require. In addition to the necessity of reconsidering every interpretation of the Qur’an that does not use anthropological tools, which leads to contradicting what the interpreters have decided and the nation has adopted for centuries.