Mohammed Arkoun and Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd: two milestones in the path for a democratic and humanist notion of Islam
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criticism of religious discourse, Islamic reformism, legal hermeneutics, Mohammed Arkoun, Nasr Hamid Abu ZaydAbstract
In this work we discuss the most relevant aspects of the biographies of the Islamic thinkers Mohammed Arkoun (1928-2010) and Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (1943-2010), together with the key point of their modern interpretation of Quranic hermeneutics, taken as an indispensable element to achieve a humanist and democratic notion of Islam. Both authors agree on the need to renew the exegetic techniques about Islam’s Holy Texts interpretation (Qu’ran and Sunnah) as a necessary theoretical tool to overcome the closed and authoritarian ideas that were for ages the cornerstone of many Islamic-rooted legal- political systems. In their opinion, to defend an open reading of Holy Texts is an unavoidable task that will allow, on the one hand, to recover the humanist and emancipatory character of the original Islamic message, and in the other hand, to establish a legal-political model more suitable for the democratic values of the modern era.
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