This path brings together books that read texts, in Mohammed Arkoun’s work, as parts of their history rather than as data detached from the time of transcription, reception, and interpretation. Here, the text appears within a broader cultural and epistemic movement in which memory, institutions, symbol, and power intertwine.
This path is especially evident in Readings in the Qur’an, where the Qur’an is read within the conditions of its reception and the history of the formation of its meaning. It also appears in The Human Formation of Islam, when attention broadens to how religious understanding takes shape within time, with all that it carries of memory, imagination, and questions of power. And in Toward a Comparative History of the Monotheistic Religions, the text enters a comparative horizon that situates it within a broader history of the monotheistic religions rather than isolating it from their trajectories.
Related books
- Readings in the Qur’an
- The Human Formation of Islam
- Toward a Comparative History of the Monotheistic Religions
- When Islam Awakens