A Critical Analysis of Some Quranic Foundations of Andrew Rippin

نوع مقاله : علمی پژوهشی

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1 طلبه سطح ۴ (دکتری)، موسسه بین المللی مطالعات اسلامی به زبان انگلیسی ، قم، ایران

2 دانشیار، گروه قرآن و مستشرقان، دانشگاه المصطفی، قم، ایران

چکیده

The Quran is the eternal miracle of the Prophet and includes the plan for the guidance and salvation of mankind. Many orientalists, including Rippin, consider this divine book a literary or historical text. This research attempts to analyze some of Andrew Rippin’s Quranic foundations with a descriptive-analytical method to highlight their shortcomings compared to the correct Quranic foundations. Some of Rippin’s Quranic foundations are as follows: The Quran does not provide a method of exegesis, and Muslims’ understanding of the Quran is mainly based on the life of the Prophet. The Quran should be examined as a literary or historical text. The Prophet gradually wrote the Quran. Differences in readings indicate ambiguity in certain Quranic verses. This research shows that the Quran, the hadiths of the Prophet and the Ahl al-Bayt provide methods for the tafsir of the Quran. The Quran is an eternal miracle of God which should be interpreted with correct methods, not with opinion-oriented method (tafsīr bi ra’y). Not only the meanings and words, but also the arrangement of the verses of the Quran is based on divine revelation, and the Prophet is not the author of the Quran. The difference in readings should be evaluated according to authentic sources to determine the correct reading. As long as Orientalists such as Rippin are not guided to the revelatory aspect of the Quran, they cannot provide a fair and accurate evaluation of the Quran, its structure, and its teachings. 

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دوره 3، شماره 7 - شماره پیاپی 7
سال سوم، شماره ۷، بهار ۱۴۰۳
اردیبهشت 1403
صفحه 27-47

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