Quranism
A living tradition within Islam. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Quranism is a living tradition within Islam. Also written Quranists, Qur'an-only Islam, ahl al-Qur'an (generic usage).
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. No founder and no founding date. Aisha Y. Musa (Hadith as Scripture, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) traces controversy over the sufficiency of the Qur'an as the sole source of law and doctrine to the early centuries of Islam, records that the Qur'an-only view waned during the classical period, and dates its re-emergence to nineteenth-century modernist thinkers in Egypt and India. Quranism is best described as a recurring position rather than a founded movement.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Quranism.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-quranism.
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author = {John Shaqi},
title = {Quranism},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
url = {https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-quranism},
note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.