Quranism

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Quranism (Arabic: القرآنية, romanized: al-Qurʾāniyya) is an intellectual theological movement within Islam that rejects the religious authority of Hadith—the reported sayings of Muhammad—and regards the Qur'an as the sole self-sufficient source of Islamic doctrine and law. Quranists argue that the Qur'an is complete and does not need to be supplemented by other texts. Quranists differ in how they assess Hadith: some reject it entirely, while others regard individual reports as historical material or assign them a secondary role. A common defining position is that Hadith collections do not constitute an independently binding source of religious authority alongside the Qur'an. Debates over whether the Qur'an alone suffices date to the early centuries of Islam, when some Kharijites and Muʿtazilites questioned the authority of Hadith. The Qur'an-only position waned in the classical period and re-emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries among modernist thinkers in Egypt and British India. In the...

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