Extremism and Deviation of Religious (Quranic) Interpretation

Abstract

Extremism is the current world problem, which is no longer limited in scope. It has spread from  East to West. It is the crisis which threatens  the civil peace and social security of all nations and countries. 

Despite of  the international studies and concern  of extremism, its causes and treatment, the door is still open to new approaches: the phenomenon of somebody  blowing himself up among crowds of safe people, or somebody  with Western features standing proudly to cut off the heads of prisoner soldiers with is something which requires deeper and  more profound approaches with a variety of perspectives, not limited to general visions of cultural treatments, but must be rooted in the study of the religious and intellectual backgrounds, prejudices and the pre-conceived ideas which have formed the extremist mentality.

  The exploitation of the religious texts and their interpretation in accordance with deviant visions of extremist groups have been the basic resources upon which these groups attempt to market their projects and  recruit  people of limited  levels of education to implement their plans. Hence,  it is necessary to study these visions and its intellectual bases  to disclose their faults and deviations. 

This study attempts to study the root causes of radicalism in the interpretive readings of  Quran and Sunna texts in order to clarify their origins and   problems; it is an  attempt to systematically dry the sources of intellectual extremism and to establish academic approaches to read texts taking into consideration the environment, time, place, development and application of text.