Pre Modern and Critical Progressive Methodologies of Interpretation of the Qur’an and the Sunnah

Adis Duderija (Asian Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia)

JOURNAL OF QUR'AN AND HADITH STUDIES
Vol 1, No 2 (2012)

In this article I will identify and discuss the interpretational assumptions of two contemporary interpretational approaches to the interpretation of the Qur’a>n and Sunna that I refer to as premodern and critical progressive and explain their interpretational assumptions and implications. I will then discuss how these differences in interpretational mechanisms result in very different interpretations of verses to Qur’anic pertaining to husband’s unilateral right to divorce.