Ali Ahmad Naseh; Wafaa Nasrollah
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Abstract This essay deals with Hadith and Qur'anic views of an Islamic movement called "Qur'anists”. This movement has emerged in India and then transferred to Egypt and the Arab ...
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Abstract This essay deals with Hadith and Qur'anic views of an Islamic movement called "Qur'anists”. This movement has emerged in India and then transferred to Egypt and the Arab World .The followers of this trend believe that Qur'an- that comprises all religion matters- is the sole source of legislation in Islam and they reject the competence of “Sunnah” as a source of legislation for two reasons: first because it is not a divine revelation and second it had been exposed to forgery because of the delay in writing it. They call for Quran modernization and religious reformation and as a result they interpreted Quran intellectually depending on contemplation and individual reasoning. This kind of thinking leads them to think of the supernatural facts as realistic natural phenomena and deny the role of the “Sunnah” in the identification and interpretation of Quran .They also believe that Quran does not need any explanation because it is obvious not ambiguous and just needs some contemplation . Quranists do not consider any role neither for the “sunnah” nor for the narrators and collectors of “hadith”. Unfortunately, most of their logic depends on fallacies. The essay also aims to analyze the historical roots of this trend and defines the most popular communities of the Qur'anists, their leaders and their intellectual and ideological attitudes.
