The modernist reading of Islamic studies in the contemporary era has been characterized by a specific methodology in interpreting the two Revelations. Among those who stood out in this field and who stirred widespread controversy within the Islamic religious sphere is the Egyptian thinker Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, particularly through his book that caused a major intellectual and media uproar and attracted broad criticism from specialists. Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd sought to present an epistemological model through which he attempted to renew the religious methodology and, from his point of view, to liberate it from the hermeneutical theory that had dominated the sciences of exegesis since the early centuries. In this research paper, we will attempt to untangle the problematic and dialectical relationship between the text and reality by discussing the methodology employed by Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd in establishing his conclusions, focusing on a single aspect of understanding the Qur'anic text, namely, the issue of abrogation (naskh).

Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, concept of text, modernity, historicism, Qur'anic sciences, abrogation (naskh).