Résumé:
This study aims to reveal the cognitive pitfalls and methodological contradictions in the socalled Applied Islamology in the project “Criticism of Islamic Reason” by the Algerian
thinker Muhammad Arkoun .
These pitfalls and contradictions forcefully present themselves, in our opinion ,as a result of
subjecting the Qu’ranic text and forcibly adapting it to respond to ready- made western
approaches detached from their historical and cultural contexts, and considering them as
undisputed Scientific approaches on the one hand. on the other hand amassing a huge
arsenal of those approaches that agree with each other or contradict each other, made
Arkoun arrive at results that were predetermined and common in the context of westernheritage to which it was applied ,making them results that expose his Ideological tendencies
and biases more than they express Scientific knowledge
