The religious intellect is understood historically, not as an infallible essence

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• Qur’anic Islam is understood as a historical, political phenomenon that rebuilt the community

Original atoms

• Rejecting the deification of Islamic reason
• The coupling of reason with imagination and memory
• Historians’ neglect of mental data