Study and Critique of Anal Historicism Approach in Arkoun’s Quranic Opinions

Mohammad Arkoun is one of New Mutazilites who follows Anal historical school. Those who follows this school believe that in order of presentation of a commentary from a text, we should be aware of social, historical conditions and other cultural elements that have influence on the text.This approach hasn’t accepted the liner-traditional historiography and consider the history as a complicated relation among various social, political, cultural discourses and one of the problems of Islamic intellect is lack of historical view. Historicity of Quranic text and differences between written and oral Qur’an are some of Arkoun’s opinions. In this research with analytic-descriptive method, the negation of Arkun's opinion that the revelation was not written in the Prophetic period is a part of Arkun's extreme vision and his lack of holistic analysis, disregarding the history-making role of the Holy Qur’an from Arkun's point of view, is one of the findings of this research and we have numerous critical points against arkouns opinions in this article. Also, accepting the claims of the Anal school is far-fetched, because it requires a rational and narrative proof that this school does not accept, and the change in the Qur'an from speech to writing, which is the claim of Arkun, has been rejected for various reasons.