Prominent Muslim scholars including Nidhal Guessoum and Usaama al-Azami have argued that Qurʾānic accounts of Adam are compatible with evolutionary descent through allegorical or non-literalist hermeneutics.
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When a story or text is understood as representing something deeper or more abstract rather than being literally, word-for-word true.
evolutionary descent(as a biological concept)
The scientific theory that all living things, including humans, evolved from earlier forms of life over millions of years through a process of gradual change.
non-literalist hermeneutics(as a method of interpretation)
An approach to reading and interpreting texts that looks for symbolic or hidden meanings rather than taking every word exactly as written.