Islamic scholarship operates through historical and textual construction, not neutral reading.

Evidence

Perhaps the most interesting development has been the Maronite Fr. Y. Moubarac’s deeply original work, Abraham dans le Coran; its treatment of the Qur’an is revolutionary, in that it recognises, respects and uses critically the religious intention of the text; it also seeks in the figure of the Patriarch a common meeting-ground for Muslims and Christians. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1740

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘Abrahamic’ shared-origin paradigm that frames the Christian-Islamic rapprochement project.