Reason and the Qur’an Acquire Their Meanings Through Context, Not Abstraction

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• Islamic history moved from creative plurality to doctrinal and epistemic closure

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• Reading the Qur’an requires its historical context
• The Qur’anic episteme is a network of significations
• Knowledge in the Qur’an is revelatory knowledge
• The distinction between knowledge and the sciences
• The sciences and reason are linked to a later development
• Reading the Qur’an requires its historical context
• The Qur’anic episteme is a network of significations
• Knowledge in the Qur’an is revelatory knowledge
• The distinction between knowledge and the sciences
• The sciences and reason are linked to a later development