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Document Details : Title: The Dialogue between Christians and Muslims against the Background of Modern Islamic Studies Author(s): VAN REETH, Jan M.F. Journal: Bibliotheca Orientalis Volume: 79 Issue: 5-6 Date: 2022 Pages: 521-536 DOI: 10.2143/BIOR.79.5.3292083 Abstract : In the course of the 19th century and following the tracks of modern Biblical research, historical-critical studies were also developed about the Qur'ān. It proved to be an edited text as well, unmistakably shaped by a few generations of scribes. Any true and sincere dialogue between Christians and Muslims should take the results of such studies into account, evenly from both sides – Biblical and Qur'ānic exegesis. Otherwise, the result can be no more than a pointless discussion beside one another, and no real dialogue with each other. In such a case it is to be preferred to exchange ideas implicitly, by way of scientific publications about each other’s sacred texts. As long as one is considering a text not as a living word but as dead material (Mouhanad Khorchide), uncreated even in its outward form and completely divine, not only because of the content of its message, but also in its literal, linguistic expression, any philological approach is impossible. But this does not mean that there may not be in the meanwhile a dialogue about comparable practical questions and principles which emerge from each other’s religious texts and traditions (Henri de La Hougue). |
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