The projective characteristic in the modernists’ reading of the Qur’anic text: A study of the concept and results

Abstract

Projectiveness is a characteristic that modernists have borrowed from orientalists in describing most of their theories towards the Holy Quran. Some have labeled it the projective approach, which is in fact a psychological characteristic that cannot be liberated from except by strictly adhering to the steps of scientific research. Modernists have often fallen under the influence of imported ideas and have repeated the doubts advocated by some orientalists, because they are consistent with the goals they seek to achieve. Many of their theses were intellectual and psychological projections, especially when dealing with the Quranic text. Many of the issues related to the Quran and its sciences that modernists and orientalists have researched have been based on their intellectual projections and their selection of specific narratives to build a thought far from the truth for the recipient by producing distorted ideas about the cognitive system of the Holy Quran.