Mohammad Salama offers a way to re-engage with the Qur’ān's indigenous and Arabic contexts as a means to decolonize the field of Qur’ānic studies. Salama puts emphasis on the Qur’ān as an indigenous code of knowledge, rather than as a text derived from a Late Antique milieu.
We owe others our language, our history, our art, our survival, our neighborhood, our relationships, … our ability to defy social conventions as well as support these conventions. All of this we learn from others. None of us is alone; each of us is dependent on others.
The challenge was...
Stanford Humanities Center
