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Understanding the Qur’an depends on recognizing its genre. A “problem-based” approach, with its historicist outlook, addresses belief in a way that fosters literalism, whereas a “mystery-based” approach, adopting a transhistorical perspective, treats the text as a story open to interpretation and invites the reader to faith.
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