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

We have known that many Muslims consider his beloved prophet MuhammadSAW was illiterate. It was based on many evidences, Quran evidences, prophetic hadithevidences, and history evidences. However, this claim is still far from right because it hasbeen known that Prophet Muhammad had great intelligences. Before being a prophet orapostolate, 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 fightjust to appoint of who has the right to put “hajar aswadâ€. Muhammad Syahrur, a modernIslamic 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 interestingtopic to be discussed