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AN EXIGESIS OF “VERILY WE HAVE MADE YOU TRIBES AND NATIONS” AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR MODERN DISCOURSES ON (RELIGIOUS) PLURALISM
Adekola, Abbas
Adekola, Abbas
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2025-08
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https://doi.org/10.34944/cx2x-3e63
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Qur’an 49:13 offers a model for a theory of religious pluralism that escapes the unresolved theological differences of the world religions. It contains what one might call a convergence of the pluralist evidence that incorporates important sociological and epistemological reasons for adherents of all faiths to accept difference and to relate to one another positively. The evidence is in the common origin of all humans and in the fact of their living together within social arrangements that must increasingly become more diverse and pluralistic, a fact that will necessitate mutual recognition, respect and cooperation to attain the goal of al ta’ āruf that is set for all people in this verse. A further segment of this verse stresses the idea that only God knows those who are the righteous. Oftentimes, religious pluralism has been sought through theological reconciliation or by a comparison of the belief systems of Islam and those of ‘the People of the Book’, an approach that has led to more problems and left out other religious groups. Based on Quran 49:13, I could see that an effective theory of religious pluralism does not have to be based on theology, because there could be other grounds. I argue that, in line with the import of this verse, an effective theory of religious pluralism could be based on the common origin of all human beings that is stressed in this verse and that tracing the trajectory of the interpretative efforts on the verse in classical tafsīr (Qur’anic exegesis) sources and in contemporary scholarship is important for its application to the discourses on religious pluralism.
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