METODE TAFSIR SOSIAL FAZLUR RAHMAN

Abstract

The paper examines the significance sociological ideas of Fazlur Rahman
(1919-1988) and his methodological principles in interpreting the Qur’an
which was laid out in his works, such as Major Themes of the Qur’an and
Islam (University of Chicago Press, 1979). It attempts to set forth his modern
and critical outlook of the Quran that formed his revisionist and contextualist
approaches in his commentary and its essential textual understanding as
derived from his major philosophical and religious works such as Prophecy in
Islam: Philosophy and Orthodoxy (University of Chicago Press, 2011) Islamic
Methodology in History, and Revival and Reform in Islam: A Study of Islamic
Fundamentalism (Oneworld Publications, 1999). The basic principle of this
methodology was structured from critical historical analysis and contextual
and thematic approaches that formed his progressive outlook and modern
worldview of the Quran with deep philosophical and theological reasoning and
argumentative kalam viewpoints and dynamic ethical-legal principle and
significance spiritual and moral foundation.