Quraniyoon (Quran-only Muslims, mainstream)
Diverse reformist movement of Muslims who reject Hadith authority and follow only the Quran. Mostly individualistic; no central organisation.
CLCI radar
BITE breakdown
0 — diverse Quran-only reformist movement; mainstream low-control.
Profile facts
In context
Quraniyoon include diverse figures from Ahmed Subhy Mansour to Edip Yuksel and Kassim Ahmad. Most are individual scholars or small communities; no central organisation. Mainstream low-control; specific high-control sub-currents (Submitters etc.) covered separately.
Recovery resources
- ICSA (International Cultic Studies Association) — General referral and cult-aware therapist directory.
- INFORM (Information Network on Religious Movements) — LSE-founded UK research-based information service covering new religious movements.
- Freedom of Mind Resource Center — Steven Hassan's organisation; BITE-model resources and family-side exit guidance.
See the full curated list at /resources.
Evidence by BITE axis
- Severance from mainstream Muslim family in some cases
- mainstream low-control
Timeline
- Late 19th c.Quranist movement crystallises
Evidence matrix
Structured sources cross-linked to the claims they document. Tiered per the source hierarchy. For free-text citations see the Sources section below.
Sources
- Aisha Y. Musa academic work search ↗
- Scripture and the Qurʾān — Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān — https://doi.org/10.1163%2F1875-3922_q3_EQCOM_00180 open ↗
- The Qur’anists — Religion Compass (2010) — https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1749-8171.2009.00189.x open ↗
- The Ideology of Mu'ammar Al-Qadhdhafi: Theory and Practice — International Journal of Middle East Studies (1983) — https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0020743800051394 open ↗
- Sudan threatens 25 Muslims with death on charges of apostasy — https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/16/sudan-charges-25-death-penalty-apostasy-sharia-law open ↗
- I follow the Quran — https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/i-follow-the-quran/article10074190.ece open ↗
- Muslim woman receives death threats after leading prayers in Kerala — https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/30/muslim-woman-receives-death-threats-leading-prayers-kerala-india open ↗
- The Qur'anists — http://www.academia.edu/1035742/The_Quranists open ↗
- 10.22052/0.22.7 — https://doi.org/10.22052%2F0.22.7 open ↗
- Muslims' Unheralded Messenger — https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/12/AR2005051201788.html?noredirect=on open ↗
- The Azāriqa in Islamic heresiography — Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (1991) — https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0041977X00014774 open ↗
- Azāriqa — Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE — https://doi.org/10.1163%2F1573-3912_ei3_COM_0171 open ↗
- 10.1093/acref/9780195125580.001.0001/acref-9780195125580-e-72 — https://dx.doi.org/10.1093%2Facref%2F9780195125580.001.0001%2Facref-9780195125580-e-72 open ↗
- The Qur'anists — https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00189.x open ↗
- The Qur’anists — Religion Compass (2010) — https://dx.doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1749-8171.2009.00189.x open ↗
- PAR246 Hadith Criticism — http://people.uncw.edu/bergh/par246/L21RHadithCriticism.htm open ↗
- Scripture and the Qurʾān — Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān — https://dx.doi.org/10.1163%2F1875-3922_q3_eqcom_00180 open ↗
- International Religious Freedom Report 2009 — https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/2009/127248.htm open ↗
- The Qur’anists — Religion Compass (2010) — https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00189.x open ↗
- Scripture and the Qurʾān — Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān — https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1875-3922_q3_EQCOM_00180 open ↗
- Egypt persecutes Muslim moderates — https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/opinion/23iht-edmansour.1.19632638.html open ↗
We cite sources by name and outlet rather than fabricating links. Where a source includes its own URL, the open ↗ link opens it directly; otherwise search ↗runs a Google Scholar query for the cited title — useful for verifying academic sources. For news outlets, search the outlet's own archive.
Change history
Substantive edits logged per the score-updates policy.
- 2026-05-29Phase 1 Batch J: per-group recovery resources applied via programmatic palette (closest-fit by category + subCategory + score). Palette: Mainstream-comparator lighter.
- 2026-05-20Source-density flags derived from existing free-text sources[]: academic sources. Heuristic auto-flag; subsequent editorial pass will populate structuredSources[] with reliability tiers.
- 2026-05-20Score band scheme migrated from 4 bands to 5 (Minimal 0–5 / Low 6–12 / Moderate 13–20 / High 21–30 / Extreme 31–40). No CLCI value changed; the new Minimal band was carved out of the bottom of the previous Low band.
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