This page explains a conceptual relationship between two parties within Shahrur’s thought, and how this relationship functions in the construction of meaning.
Meaning of the relationship
What is meant by this relationship is that the Salafi mind is presented as a form of thinking that places the human being in a secondary rank, neither granting them their independent standing nor recognizing their rights as a center of understanding and choice. Here, marginalization means weakening the human being’s presence, value, and role, and making them subordinate to a perspective that restricts their freedom and strips them of their rights.
The two parties in the relationship
- The first party: the Salafi mind
- The relationship: marginalizes
- The second party: the human being
Evidence
- The Qur’anic Narrative, vol. 1 via The Salafi Mind Marginalizes Human Beings
- Supporting passage: the excerpt criticizes the Salafi mind as a mind that marginalizes the human being and strips them of their rights
Its effect in the cognitive map
This relationship acquires its importance because it reveals a critical stance toward the intellectual structure produced by the Salafi mind, and shows its direct effect on the conception of the human being within the conceptual map. It links a mode of knowledge to a negative human outcome, and thus helps explain how the human being’s place is reformulated when viewed through this mind, and what follows from that in the conception of religion, knowledge, and right.