La relation entre le Coran et la Poésie – Antidote contre le fondamentalisme

AUTEUR : TOBIAS SPECKER

ABSTRACT

The article advocates for the idea that a fundamentalistic interpretation of the Qurʾān not only disregards the text’s historicity but also its linguistic and literary structure. He therefore shows that the salafist interpretation is not simply anti-intellectual. It is also characterised by a threefold reduction - textual, epistemic and literary. He contrasts the salafist interpretation with the approach of the medieval scholar ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Ǧurjānī who emphasizes the necessity of an analysis informed by literary science and who relates the Qurʾān to poetry. Thus salafism is regarded as an anti-traditional traditionalism.