This page brings together reading paths that help the reader enter the atlas through more than one doorway. The reader can follow the questions that return across the books: How is the Qur’an read? How is tradition formed? Where does power operate in interpretation? And how do modernity, humanism, and the imaginary appear within these readings?
The reader begins with A First Entry into Arkoun’s Questions. After that, one can move through the paths according to the theme one wishes to examine in Arkoun’s texts: the Qur’an, tradition, power, fundamentalism, modernity, humanism, comparison, and the imaginary.
Main Paths
- A First Entry into Arkoun’s Questions
- The Qur’an: Discourse, Reception, and Codification
- Tradition, History, and the Conditions of Reading
- Power, Orthodoxy, and Interpretation
- Fundamentalism, Violence, and Politics
- Modernity, Secularization, and Rights
- Humanism, Education, and Reform
- Monotheistic Religions and Comparison
- The Imaginary, Memory, and Symbol
Supporting Path
- Text and History: this path helps connect the question of the text with the question of history, reception, and comparison. For direct Qur’anic reading, one may return to the path The Qur’an: Discourse, Reception, and Codification.
Some earlier paths were merged or transferred into the paths above, such as: A Quick Entry into Arkoun, the Imaginary and Memory, Power and Knowledge, Arkoun and Shahrour. Their original pages have become reference pages.