This path brings together reading the Qur’an as discourse that entered history, and tracing what reception and codification have done to shape the conditions for understanding it within collective consciousness, language, and inherited tradition. It remains close to one clear question: how is a text read without isolating it from the history of its formation and the forms of its presence in the community?
This path appears in Readings in the Qur’an, where the Qur’an emerges as a field of discourse and critical reading, and where the relation of meaning to its historical conditions and to the accumulated layers of interpretation and exegesis becomes visible. It also appears in The Human Formation of Islam through the Qur’an’s connection to the formation of Islam within human history, and to memory, symbol, power, and legitimacy. As for Towards a Comparative History of the Monotheistic Religions, it places the Qur’an within a broader comparative horizon, without separating it from the history of the monotheistic religions and their shared trajectories.
Related books
- Readings in the Qur’an
- The Human Formation of Islam
- Towards a Comparative History of the Monotheistic Religions