History of The Holy Quran: A Critical Analytical View

Abstract

Onework of the Western approaches is the phenomenon of “Text Criticism”, which was utilized by the secularists and modernists on the texts of legitimacy. Being an Islamic term, the term interpretation was used as an approach to this methodology on the pretext of re-reading the legal text in a new way which extends to the fixed sources and stable concepts of religion to make them relative ideas subject to renewal, change and modernism.

It is worth mentioning that this case has been adopted earlier by the philosophers of the man-made Secular Western Enlightenment for the Torah and the Bible; they saw their texts represent a historical stage and no longer valid for the age of science, and this is the statement of the research problem. Therefore, this study aims to identify, refute and criticize the historical theory used by modernists and feminists for the interpretation of the legitimacy texts and the consequences of such methodology in changing, altering and distorting of the Quranic texts and their actual meanings. The research is based on a descriptive approach which depends upon a theoretical study. One of the most important findings of this study is that Islamic legitimacy is valid for all societies and times and not restricted to a specific historical stage.