The Traditional Reading Projects Later Concepts onto the Qur’an

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• Qur’anic Islam is understood as a historical-political phenomenon that rebuilt the community

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• Distinguishing between Qur’anic consciousness and later theology
• Projecting later concepts onto the text
• Synchronic reading against projection
• Synchronic reading differs from historicism