PENDEKATAN THE QUR’ANIC MILIEU DALAM STUDI AL-QUR’AN (Telaah Pemikiran Angelika Neuwirth dalam The Qur’an in Context: Historical and Literary Investigations into the Qur’anic Milieu)

Abstract

The study of the Qur’an among Western thinkers seems not monolithic. In the real of orientalists who use historical analysis to respond Islam with a negative value, such as regarding the Qur’an none more than an epigonal text and not much left to be known about the Qur’an. Meanwhile, a positive understanding toward Qur’an has done by some of them, such as Angelika Neuwirth. The differences are more based on Angelika’s attempt to convey a truly contextual reading of the Qur’an, not contenting its self with dissolving the Qur’an into its Christian, Jewish, and other “sources”, but to allow for the possibility that the Qur’an may turn out to be a text of its own