Shattering the False Mountains : A Qur’anic Unmasking of Sacred Illusions

ஆசிரியர்: Nasser Ibn Dawood

Preface: To the Non-Muslim Reader This book does not assume belief, nor does it seek to persuade through confession or authority. It addresses the Qur’an as a text of enduring intellectual and ethical significance, engaging it through analysis rather than devotion, and through method rather than proclamation. Readers unfamiliar with Islamic theology or Qur’anic studies may encounter concepts, narratives, and terms that have often been framed exclusively within confessional discourse. This work approaches those elements differently. The Qur’an is treated here not as a closed religious artifact, but as a self-contained semantic and ethical system —one that repeatedly interrogates inherited certainty, challenges unexamined authority, and links meaning directly to responsibility. The motivation behind this study is methodological rather than apologetic. It asks how the Qur’an constructs truth claims, how it evaluates belief, and how it connects understanding to ethical consequence. In doing so, it avoids assuming the correctness of later theological formulations and instead focuses on the internal logic of the text itself. A central concern of this book is the problem of inherited certainty —beliefs or assumptions accepted through tradition, identity, or authority without sustained internal verification. The Qur’an consistently problematizes such certainty, not by replacing it with skepticism, but by subjecting it to coherence, accountability, and ethical conseq

மூலம்: Internet Archive ·