Abstract:
One of the important discussions in the field of Quranic sciences is the issue of the Quran being influenced by the culture of the time of its revelation. Some believe that elements of the culture of the time are reflected in the Quran and that their holy book has accepted them. Undoubtedly, the formulation of the hypothesis regarding the Quran's influence by the culture of the time has multiple roots and factors, which the present article addresses by citing the most important ones, and while critically analyzing those contexts, it confronts the formulation of this hypothesis with serious challenges.
Machine summary:
Following this thought that the Quran is a human phenomenon, its influence from various factors, including the most important of them, the culture of the time, would naturally arise; because everyone's personality, no matter how genius or different from others, is more or less influenced by the social, family, and tribal environment in which they have grown and flourished, and without a doubt, Muhammad صلّی اللّه علیه و آله would also be like this if considered apart from revelation.
In the field of Islamic studies by Muslims, although no one spoke of the human nature of the Quran and therefore their writings and speech did not lead to the discussion of the Quran's influence from the culture of the time, another issue was at work that could have been the groundwork for proposing those ideas, and that was the thought of the conflict between religion and science in general, and religious texts and empirical science in particular, which was first raised among Europeans and Westerners due to the specific structure of their religious texts, and then consciously or unconsciously brought to Muslims as well.