What is Meant
The text states that understanding the Qur’an in the modern era does not suffice with the old tools of interpretation, but requires modern cognitive tools It also links this to the development of human knowledge and the sciences of the age, because contemporary reading is based on this development
The Atom’s Structure in the Atlas
- Type of argument: methodological
- Argument movement: requiring modern cognitive tools to understand the contemporary Qur’an.
- Central terms: modern knowledge, understanding the Qur’an, cognitive tools, development, the age.
- Degree of centrality: central.
The Qur’anic reading is tied to the development of knowledge tools, so the old interpretive legacy alone is not enough; rather, the means must be renewed in a way that suits the age, and this places the contemporary method at the heart of his project.
Links That Help the Reading
- Muhammad Shahrur The Qur’an in Contemporary Thought
- the contemporary reading method
- Contemporary reading of the Qur’an breaks with inherited tradition and rests on a scientific method
Reliance
- Supporting text: «Understanding the contemporary Qur’an requires modern cognitive tools, and human knowledge is developing».
Place of Reliance in the Book
- Book: The Qur’an in Contemporary Thought.
- Location: in the first section of the book, within the call for a contemporary method of reading religion.
- Type of reliance: near evidence.
- Mark that helps verification: tools of knowledge
- Reading note: This passage is suitable because it links contemporary understanding to the development of the tools of knowledge, and it is close to the atom in terms of the general idea.
Degree of Documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom is based on a direct witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Limits of reading: the formulation above is an analytical summary, and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is transmitted textually.
Its Function in the Book
Its function here is methodological; it regulates the method of reading or inference that the book follows.
Related to
Editorial Note
This atom represents a clear gateway to the methodology of contemporary reading.