Copyright and Use

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This project is an analytical and organizational tool for the author’s thought, aiming to make it easier to trace ideas, concepts, and arguments within his project.

This site does not republish the books, does not provide a substitute for them, and does not replace recourse to the original texts. Its function is to build a reading map that helps the reader understand the relationships between books, concepts, intellectual paths, and points of reference.

All rights belong to their respective owners. The names of books, authors, publishers, programs, or episodes, where present, are included for documentation, reference, critical reading, and research purposes only.

Any quotations included on the site, if any, are used within narrow limits and for the purpose of analysis, explanation, or critique, with reference to their original source whenever possible.

Nature of the project

This atlas is not a substitute library, nor a digital copy of the author’s works, nor a complete archive of his output.
It is an attempt to organize a broad body of intellectual material into a conceptual network that supports reading, review, and comparison.

The project relies on:

  • Analysis of ideas.
  • Tracing concepts.
  • Linking books to one another.
  • Building reading paths.
  • Referring to original sources.
  • Clarifying the relationships between arguments, concepts, and themes.

These links are mentioned only to clarify points of reference, not to transfer ownership or editorial responsibility to any external party:

Technical and visual credits

The site interface and its tools use a number of external technical and visual resources. They are mentioned here for transparency and attribution, and mentioning them does not mean that these parties are responsible for the content of the atlas or approve it:

  • 8 Font: The Thmanyah font family is used in the site interface and text, including Thmanyah Sans, Thmanyah Serif Text, and Thmanyah Serif Display, according to its usage terms.
  • Quartz: the open-source framework used to build the site from Markdown files and internal links.
  • Cloudflare Pages: the site’s static hosting and deployment.
  • Cloudflare Turnstile: security verification in contact forms, when enabled.
  • Google Analytics: limited, general traffic measurement as explained in the Privacy and Cookies Policy.
  • OpenAI API: used in some stages of analysis, review, and draft generation, with human review and editing before publication.
  • Obsidian: used as the editing and organization environment for Markdown files and internal links during the work process.

Additional details about these tools are available on the Technical and Visual Credits page.

Note regarding Distillary

Part of this atlas’s construction and the organization of its analytical layers relied on auxiliary tools and methodologies from Distillary, especially in converting materials into structures that can be indexed, linked, and reviewed.

This reliance is technical and methodological, and it does not mean that Distillary is a source of original content, a substitute for Muhammad Shahrur’s books and published materials, or a party responsible for the summaries and editorial analyses presented here. The intellectual references and rights related to the original sources remain with their owners, and the atlas’s wording and analytical pathways remain the responsibility of this project.

Regarding the books

The site does not aim to replace the original books or summarize them in a way that makes them unnecessary.
Readers are always advised to return to the authorized original editions, because the atlas does not convey the book’s full experience, does not preserve its complete context, and does not claim to represent it fully or definitively.

The summaries and analyses found here are editorial formulations intended to understand the structure of ideas, not reproductions of the original texts.

Regarding audio and visual materials

The site may contain links to or embeds of audio or visual materials originally published on public platforms such as YouTube or others.

In such cases, the site does not host the audio or visual files locally; rather, it displays them from their original source through the official embedding tools provided by the publishing platform.

All rights relating to these materials remain with their owners or the entities that published them. Their use here is within the context of reference, documentation, analysis, and linking them to concepts and paths within the atlas.

Limits on the use of visual and audio materials

This atlas does not host audio or visual files, nor does it republish full episode transcripts. It uses Great News program materials as internal references for analysis and citation only.

Included in the atlas:

  • Episode indexes and titles.
  • Short editorial summaries.
  • Concepts, atoms, and links to books.
  • References to the existence of an original source when needed.

Not included in the atlas:

  • Audio files.
  • Full transcript texts.
  • Long quotations from an episode.
  • Any material that would make an atlas page a substitute for watching the episode from its original source.

The transcript is treated as a primary material that requires review, especially in the case of verses, names, and technical terms. Therefore, the atlas does not rely solely on a verse or sensitive phrase from the transcript, but reviews it before turning it into an atom or a relation.

If there is an error or objection

If you are the rights holder, or represent an entity that owns rights related to material mentioned on this site, and you believe there is a use that needs modification, removal, or clarification, you may contact me to review the matter.

I will deal with any serious request in good faith, whether by modification, removal, or adding an appropriate clarification.

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