Quranic exegesis

‘Ā’isha ‘Abd al- Rahmān was the first female Muslim to make a name for herself in the field of Qur’anic studies. Whilst she remained tied to traditional positions regarding women’s issues, she made a fundamental contribution to the history of women in the Arab-Islamic world.

The Justice and Charity movement of 'Abd al-Salām Yāsīn has developed a rigorous training path based on individual spiritual perfection and the historical mission of the community of believers.

It is impossible to make sense of how Muslims read and approach their sacred text without taking into consideration the evolution of media

For centuries, clerics have considered historical study of the sacred Text to be a form of heresy of Western derivation: that has not prevented the development of critical thought

The nature of human actions has always been at the centre of Islamic theological reflection. Indeed, the Qur’an appears to support both God’s omnipotence and human responsibility simultaneously

The Islamists claim to be restoring the thinking and practices of the first Islamic communities. In this way, the various interpretations that can be found in the oldest sources are ignored

Into the crisis of authority in contemporary Sunni Islam

Al-Juwaynī imagines an Islamic world that no longer has either a caliph or the unitary government of an “imam of usurpation” or a sultan

The theory of abrogation of the Qur’an by the Qur’an itself has a long history in Islamic tradition and continues to find wide-ranging currency in preaching nowadays

The first glimmerings of an interpretation of the Qur’an that goes beyond the text’s immediate meaning can already be glimpsed in the works of the first exegetes and the imams in the Prophet’s family