RT Article T1 The historical status of the qur'an: modern discussion among Turkish academics JF Islam and Christian-Muslim relations VO 17 IS 4 SP 457 OP 469 A1 Albayrak, İsmail 1968- LA English PB Routledge YR 2006 UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/597089515 AB Recently, Turkish academics have been increasingly interested in discussing the historicity of the Qur'an. Some revisionist academics think that the Qur'an was revealed in precise historical circumstances and primarily responds to such circumstances. Thus qur'anic commands in general are not universal and do not, therefore, satisfy the demands of all Muslims for all time. So a new understanding is inevitable. Having used both Muslim and non-Muslim sources, they try to develop a new methodology to transform qur'anic prescriptions for the present day. The scholars who adopt an anti-historical approach to the Qur'an hold the view that, by historicizing the content of the Qur'an, revisionist academics create an artificial problem. They believe this is not an internal Muslim problem but that this controversy was injected into the Muslim world with the promulgation of both modernity and Western influence. K1 Koran K1 Islam K1 Historismus K1 Auseinandersetzung K1 Wissenschaft K1 Religion K1 Lehre K1 Türkei : Islam : Koran : Historismus : Wissenschaftlicher Dialog : Religiöse Lehre K1 Gesellschaftsmodell K1 Hermeneutik K1 Moderne Gesellschaft K1 Wertewandel K1 Türkei K1 Social System K1 Hermeneutics K1 Modern Society K1 transformation of values K1 Turkey DO 10.1080/09596410600795068