PEMIKIRAN ANDREW RIPPIN TERHADAP ANALISIS SASTRA AL-QUR

Abstract

By using a research model with a philosophical approach, this paper seeks to examine how Andrew Rippin's views are related to Al-Qur'an literary analysis. Departing from the biographical setting, continued with thoughts on the literary analysis of the Al-Qur'an, to the comparison of his thoughts with Muslim scholars on the authenticity of the Qur'an. The study of the authenticity of the Qur'an is a hot topic for the early orientalist generation. Among the early figures who became the promoters of the study was John Wansbourgh. Using a historical-literary analysis approach, he made an idea that the Al-Qur'an is nothing more than a literary work that has Jewish and Christian influences. Andrew Rippin as one of his students, agreed and disagreed with Wansbrough's argument which he wrote in his work entitled Literary Analysis of Qur??n, S?ra and Tafs?r: The Methodologies of John Wansbrough. The initial assumption made by Rippin as the foundation for his study of the source of the authenticity of the Qur'an was that Judaism and Christianity were religions in history. The implication is in the form of secularization of the study of the history of religion, by which it will show the truth or falsehood of each religion. As the antithesis of this idea, the studies conducted by Muslim scholars using the phenomenological-historical method constitute data and arguments to answer the skeptical views of Western scholars on the validity of the Al-Qur'an.