The sciences of the Qur’an are portrayed here as a historical product that emerged through civilizational contact and epistemic need. But in Shahrur’s view, they expanded and became conflated with exegesis, and so lost their methodological independence.
- Contemporary reading requires a new hermeneutical methodology that goes beyond traditional exegesis
- The expansion of the traditional classification
- The traditional Quranic sciences emerged historically and then became conflated under the dominance of exegesis
- The historical emergence of the Quranic sciences
- The dominance of the science of exegesis