Muhammad Syahrur’s View About of Ummiyatu Muhammad or Illiterate of Prophet Muhammad SAW

Abstract

We have known that many Muslims consider his beloved prophet Muhammad
SAW was illiterate. It was based on many evidences, Quran evidences, prophetic hadith
evidences, and history evidences. However, this claim is still far from right because it has
been known that Prophet Muhammad had great intelligences. Before being a prophet or
apostolate, Muhammad was known with many epithets among his people, such as al-amien.
He was also wise man who could give solution when many tribes at Mecca want to fight
just to appoint of who has the right to put “hajar aswadâ€. Muhammad Syahrur, a modern
Islamic scholar, denied that claim and tried to reveal the real meaning of ummi in Quran.
Fortunately, Muhammad Syahrur did not writing about this topic only in his masterwork
“al-Kitab wa al-Qur‟an; Qira‟ah Mu‟ashirahâ€. However, this topic is still an interesting
topic to be discussed.