The Koranic phenomenon - Essay on a theory on the Koran, by Malek Bennabi, Héritage Éditions

Despite the good reception reserved in France by the critics for "Vocation de l'Islam", Malek Bennabi considered the "Quranic Phenomenon" as the most important of his works.

Leaving aside the "contents of faith", he had recourse to several disciplines - phenomenology, the comparative history of religions, the sciences of language, psychology, even psychoanalysis - to achieve a successful study of religion in general, and the Koran in particular, perceived as "phenomena". He demonstrated that modern human sciences not only do not necessarily lead to estrangement from religion, but that they can provide an argument allowing the authenticity of Koranic revelation to be established.

His conclusions provide the modern Muslim with the rational foundation of his faith that superficial modernism often led to rejection. They update the abundant medieval literature of the “ Dalaïl Noubouwa ” (proofs of the Prophecy) and offer a kind of modern Kalam that can exempt French-speaking Islam from reading the voluminous classic Tafsir .

This phenomenal study of the Koran deserves to be continued for the readers of the translations of the Inaugural Book of Islam, who cannot be subjugated by the Koranic mastery of the incomparable "art of speaking well", as the hese were the Arabs of the seventh century, who had always had, according to Renan, “preoccupations with language”. It is on this sensitivity that the theory of the Koranic idjaz ( insuperability ) was based, so well studied by al-Bâqillânî or al-Jurjânî.

Shortly after the first edition of the "Quranic Phenomenon", its reading convinced French-speaking or French non-Arabic readers of the authenticity of the Revelation who cannot be sensitive to the seduction exerted by the Koranic style on such an expert. -language of Mecca or such other poets of the Tamim who came to Medina to challenge the Prophet.

This book, written in Dreux at the cost of long readings and after long meditations, deserves to be offered to French-speaking readers, and in particular to young Muslims in France whose spiritual and educational needs leave the "religious" bureaucracies in place totally indifferent. by the secular "organizers" of Islam to "represent" this religion.