Quranic inerrancy
Quranic inerrancy is a doctrine central to the Muslim faith that the Quran is the infallible and inerrant word of God as revealed to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel in the 7th century CE.[1][2]
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Modernism approach
Influenced by Al-Afghani's modernist interpretations one Muhammad Abduh, a Mufti of Egypt revisited then contemporary Islamic thought with his ijtihad post 1899AD in his tafsir al Manar, expressed that, wherever Quran seemed contradictory and irrational to logic and science , must be understood as reflecting the Arab vision of the world, as written with available 7th century intellectual level of Arabs; all verses referring to superstitions like witchcraft and evil eye be explained as expressions of then Arab beliefs; and miraculous events and deeds in Quran be rationally explained just as metaphors or allegories.[3]
According to Ali Amjad Rizvi rejecting scriptural inerrancy would need not taking Quran literally as word of God but as word of the man, even if divinely inspired, that also would mean looking at Muhammad just any other fallible historical man in context of his own time not necessarily for emulation. [4]
See also
References
- Braswell, George W. (2000). What You Need to Know about Islam & Muslims. B&H Publishing Group. ISBN 9780805418293.
- Anwar, Syed Shakeel Ahmed (2007). The Holy Quran is Infallible: A Critique of the Book "Is the Qur'an Infallible?" by 'Abdullah 'Abdal-Fadi, a Minister of Christ. Telugu Islamic Publications Trust. ISBN 9788188241736.
- Zayd, Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū (2006). Reformation of Islamic Thought: A Critical Historical Analysis. Amsterdam University Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-90-5356-828-6.
- Rizvi, Ali A. (2016-11-22). The Atheist Muslim: A Journey from Religion to Reason. St. Martin's Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-250-09445-2.