Kirata
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ORIGINAL: kdsub If I understand Abrogation, and i am not sure I do, then it is still a doctrine of Islam and still religious in nature... Well that's correct. But while the Koran clearly supports abrogation, it gives no clue what it refers to. On the one hand, it may be interpreted to refer to Allah's previous revelations (to the Jews and to the Christians) which are abrogated by the Koran. But that view is non-controversial and requires no doctrinal support. On the other hand, it may be interpreted to refer to the Koran itself. It is this latter interpretation that I have found to be typically referred to as the Doctrine of Abrogation. There are different views on how many verses are abrogated, which ones they are, and by what, but all of them depend on theological contortions that would be the envy of a circus performer, and none are encouraging. There is no need for Muslims to deny abrogation in order to dismiss the pernicious doctrine that it applies to the Koran itself. K.
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