1. Introduction; 2. Traditional Understanding of Revelation; 3. Fazlur Rahman: Revelation Historicised; 4. Abdolkarim Soroush: the Prophet’s Revelatory Experiences; 5. Muhammad Mujtahed Shabestari: How the Prophet saw the world; 6. Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd: Revelation as a Linguistic Manifestation of the Communicative Interaction between God and the Prophet; 7. Conclusion.