How to Think About Qur'an and Revelation from the Perspective of Progressive Muslim Thought -A Brief Preliminary Reflection
CAVEAT - This preliminary reflection is written for non academic audiences and is not meant to be a fully systematic ,academic treatment on the subject but primarily as a piece that I can share on social media. I hope to develop these ideas more fully in the future. To understand the nature of progressive Muslim thought it is essential to understand how it approaches the nature of the Qur’an and the nature of the idea of Revelation itself . In my previous writings on progressive Islam ( here and here , ) drawing upon the work of A. Al-Khuli and Nasr Abu Zayd, I emphasised the idea that progressive Islam considers the Qur’an as a socio- culturally produced and literary discourse or set of discourses ( for summary of parts of this work click here ) . In other words , according to progressive Muslim thought there is an organic and symbiotic link between the specific religious environment o ut of which the Qur’ an emer ged and the nature of the Qur’an itself . Imp