Arkoun’s Project Begins with the Qur’an and Opens onto Historical Comparison

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• Contemporary Islam is formed between surveillance, mediation, and the disruption of epistemic modernity

Original atoms

• The Qur’an is the starting point of the project
• Communities of the Book are broader than the People of the Book
• The study of the three religions is not comparative
• The Qur’an is the starting point of the project
• Communities of the Book are broader than the People of the Book
• The study of the three religions is not comparative