Pink/Qurʾānic Interpretation, Prologue. The Contested Qur'an

The author supplies some examples of how it is becoming harder for any type of religious establishment to control the plurality of approaches to the Qurʾān. The field is globalising, and if one country does not offer the liberty to write certain things about the Qurʾān, others will do so. It is increasingly difficult for governments to bar access to such ideas, not least because of the internet. Thus, pluralisation is happening, often because of external pressures. Certain topics, such as global human rights discourses, might be dominant enough to exert pressure to seek justification for Qurʾānic statements that do not seem to conform to them; and specific groups exert pressure in order to achieve such conformity. It is this complex web of power structures and tensions, local as well as global, that this book seeks to elucidate.