From Jesus to the Holy Prophet Mohammad Transmogrification and Deconstruction

What happens when Holy texts are treated as literary ones. Characters, events, actions, dialogues etc. would become possibilities among enumerable possibilities and, as a result, everything becomes earthy. This is the first step in deconstruction which is an attempt to put in suspense the privileged hierarchy and meaning. In this article, the interpretive possibilities inherent in deconstructionist readings of the biblical text are considered. Heretofore, Jesus as the nodal point in Christianity having a privileged and transcendental meaning has been under attack coming from modernist and postmodernist thinkers. The same is true with the holly Prophet Mohammad who has been considered as a messenger bringing the exact words of God in the Holy Quran. Significantly, deconstructive attempts have been widely lunched to put in crisis the meaning, hierarchy and the discourse of the Holy Prophets. In this sense, the present study aims at analyzing and criticizing such deconstructive attempts.

کلیدواژه ها:

Prophet Muhammad ، Prophet Jesus ، Deconstruction ، postmodernism