Critical explanation and analysis of the ideas and principles of the neo-Mu’tazilites in the relationship between the Qur’an and Sunnah

From the beginning, the neo-Mu’tazilites paid attention to the historical roles of the Qur’an and Sunnah in shaping the intellectual mentality and framework of Muslim thought. Emphasizing the importance of religious intellectuals, they sought to recreate the rationalist literature and modern interpretation of the Holy Qur’an. The deep rift that had emerged over the centuries in Islamic society between “reason and religion”, “reason and revelation” and “reason and science and religion” and which had caused the rupture of the civilizational and social relations of Muslims, caused this current, More than anything, seek to “revive reason and rationality” in the Islamic world. It can be said that the main axis of reforming the thinking of the first generation of neo-Mu’tazilites was based on a kind of “scientific authority of the Qur’an”, “reforming their ideas into heritage and tradition” and reviving rationalism among Muslims. The first generations of the neo-Mu’tazilites went a long way both in returning to the Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah and the relationship between the two, as well as in rationalism. However, as more time passed, their forms and patterns of thought regarding the relations between “reason and revelation”, “the Qur’an and Sunnah” and “tradition and modernity” underwent more structuralist changes. The influence of the philosophies of language analysis, postmodernism, structuralism and poststructuralism, schools of literary criticism and the like, on the later generations of the neo-Mu’tazilites is evident. The steep slope of the developments in the neo-Mu’tazilites’ thought was the expansion of the intellectual realm and the increasing growth of the methods of breaking the Qur’an and Sunnah and the denial of the validity of Sunnah and Hadith, and the increasing growth of the Qur’an.