In the Shahruri lexicon, rightful possession in Shahrur’s reading is understood within the history of the end of slavery and the transformation of relations into contractual forms, moving away from the fixed traditional meaning of slavery.
Meaning in Shahrur
Rightful possession is a form of contractual relations between free persons, or a social/legal relationship read in light of custom and civil law. Shahrur therefore shifts it from the domain of ownership and enslavement to the domain of contract, regulation, and freedom.
Distinctions
- It departs from the meaning of slavery as ownership of a person.
- It stands alongside marriage because it appears in the sphere of social and sexual relations, but it is not the marital covenant itself.
- It is connected more to freedom and civil law than to affirming a historical institution that has ended.
Foundational links
- Rightful possession as a contractual relationship
- Rightful possession as contractual relations
- Marriage and ownership in the Sharia are reinterpreted contractually
- Slavery and rightful possession are historical phenomena open to deconstruction
- Rightful possession as a transitional stage toward freedom
- Family, contract, and kinship
Its place in the atlas
This page places the file on rightful possession within the lexicon, and links its reading in the family to its reading in the state and society.