Formulation of the Claim
Qur’anic language is correct and effective in its impact and in its capacity to address consciousness.
Explanation
Correctness here is understood as a quality connected to the integrity of Qur’anic language within its own expressive system, and to its ability to be a gateway to meaning rather than a merely declarative formulation. Effectiveness, on the other hand, is associated with the effect this language produces in the recipient, insofar as it reconnects with the time of revelation and moves within a symbolic horizon that makes it influential.
In Arkoun’s thought, the Qur’an’s presence is not measured by the force of logical proof alone, but by the power its language has to suggest, influence, and reshape the relationship to the text. For this reason, correctness and effectiveness appear inseparable in this context: the first concerns the structure of the utterance, while the second concerns the response and living meaning that follow from it.
Its Place in the Book’s Argument
This atom comes within the trajectory that shows how Arkoun approaches the Qur’an as a text of linguistic and symbolic density, not as discourse exhausted by literal reading or by school-based exegesis. It is connected to the nearby theses that highlight the place of language in understanding revelation, and link the expressive dimension with the affective dimension in the Qur’anic text.
Limits of the Claim
This atom should not be taken as a comprehensive judgment on all levels of Qur’anic language, nor as a substitute for the other dimensions of analysis in Arkoun. Nor does it mean that effectiveness alone takes the place of historical or critical meaning; rather, it remains a description of language’s effect within the horizon the author studies.