This path brings the reading of Islam together within the history of monotheistic religions, as part of a long process in which texts, interpretations, and collective memory intersect. Comparison here appears as a way of understanding religion in relation to history, language, and reception, rather than as a finished and separate form.
This path is highlighted in Towards a Comparative History of Monotheistic Religions, where comparison among the monotheistic religions becomes an entry point for reading difference within a shared history of formation and meaning. This is tied to the question of ethics, recognition of the other, language, and critique of metaphysics.
It also appears in Readings in the Qur’an and The Human Formation of Islam, where understanding the Qur’an and Islam is linked to the history of reception, codification, the imaginary, and power. In this sense, comparison does not come from outside the text, but from within the history of its reading and transformation.
Related books
- Towards a Comparative History of Monotheistic Religions
- Readings in the Qur’an
- The Human Formation of Islam