Like all faith communities, Muslims’ approach to their scriptures has been influenced by their epistemological worldview. This is that lens that a person or group of like-minded people habitually apply to the world around them, to the history they read and the beliefs they hold. It dictates what are the primary truths against which other claims and data are tested. In the epistemological worldview of modern Western historians, events must be explained through material or social causes. Claims of some miraculous occurrence must be fabrications or delusions.
