Kamel Abderrahmani, a young scholar, remembers the renowned reformist expert of Islam Muhammad Shahrur, who proposed new interpretations of the Qurʼān, based on a scientific and very original method ...

The moderate Islamic thinker Muhammad Shahrur’s contemporary interpretation of the Koran has attracted a lot of attention. In an interview with Ahmad Hissou, he calls for a religious reform of Islam, ...

Some of the observations of An-Na'im are well known to students of the sciences of the Qur'an (Ulum al-Qur'an). The difference in temper and format between the Makkan revelation (al-Qur'an al-Makki) ...

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