Argument Type: Definitional

122 pages

• Islam Is a Universal Religion of Values
• Freedom Is the Foundation of Human Dignity
• Polytheism Fixes What Is Changeable
• the Book Defines the Fixed Foundations
• Disbelief Is an Open Hostile Declaration
• Citizenship Is Loyalty to the Homeland and the Law
• Communal Loyalty Is Individual and Religious
• The Pillars of Islam Are Three
• Fatherhood Transcends Genetic Descent
• Motherhood Transcends Biological Birth
• Islam Combines Faith and Righteous Deeds
• Islam Is the Religion of Universal Natural Disposition
• Faith Is Specific to Muhammad’s Followers
• Ability Differs from Capacity
• Testimony Continues after the Seal of Prophethood
• Witness Is One of God’s Names
• Weaning Determines the Beginning of Effective Adoption
• the Qur’an Is an Enduring Miracle
• Muslim Includes Everyone Who Believes in God and the Last Day
• The Covenant of Islam Is a Voluntary Commitment
• Communities Are Defined by Conduct and Language
• A People Includes Nationality and Community
• Desires Arise from Instincts through Knowledge
• Injustice Means Putting a Thing in Other Than Its Proper Place
• Arab Identity Is Cultural, Not Ethnic
• The Duality of Unity and Plurality
• Articulation Is Acquired through Learning
• Freedom Is Part of Human Natural Disposition
• Freedom Is Restricted by Multiple Constraints
• The State Is Based on Three Elements
• Striving through Speech Includes Speaking the Truth
• The Sovereignty of Vicegerency Is Based on Subjection
• Pilgrimage Is a Collective Ritual
• the Prophetic Sunna and the Domain of Narratives
• The Sunna Is Divided into Messengerly and Prophetic
• Rituals Belong to the Domain of the Messengerly Sunna
• the Qur’an Is the Messenger’s Only Miracle
• Islam Is Broader than Rituals
• Islam Distinguishes between Concepts
• Religion Is an Individual Relationship with God
• Jurisprudence Is a Historical Human Understanding
• the Qur’an Is the Supreme Reference
• the City Is a Symbol of Plurality and Freedom
• the City Is a Pluralistic Society
• The Center of Islam Is the Word of God
• Iblis Is Necessary for Human Dialectic
• the Human Being Is the Humanized Bashar
• Bashar Precede the Human Being
• Report Is Connected to Observation
• Tidings Concern the Unseen
• Human Vicegerency Is Based on Knowledge
• Myth Combines Truth and Imagination
• Shahrur’s Definition of Livestock
• The Benefits of Livestock Extend beyond Meat
• the Mother of the Book Contains the Commands of Human Conduct
• the Mother of the Book Is a Universal Cosmic Source
• the Mother of the Book Is Legislation
• Eternity Pertains to God, Not Time
• Interpretation Is a Transition to Truth or Law
• Interpretation Aligns the Report with Reason and Reality
• The Distinction between Prophethood and Messengerhood
• Freedom Is Movement between Negation and Affirmation
• Dreams Are Disconnected Images
• Hanifism Is Movement within Limits
• Confusing Power with Will Generates Illusions
• Messengerhood Is the Domain of Rulings and Conduct
• the Spirit Is the Secret of Humanization
• Hearing, Sight, and the Heart Are Primary Sources of Knowledge
• the Year Is a Relative Temporal Measure
• Rituals Are Symbolic Relations
• the Year Is Associated with Events in Qur’anic Usage
• the Merciful Intellect Perceives Reality and Its Laws
• Instincts Are Unconscious and Physiological
• the Heart Is an Initial Stage of Sensory Perception
• Destiny Is Existence Outside Consciousness
• Destiny Is Objective Existence
• the Qur’an Contains the Laws of Objective Existence
• the Qur’an Is Not Heritage
• the Qur’an Combines the Scientific and the Literary
• Qur’anic Narratives Are for Edification, Not Legislation
• the Book Is a Set of Objective Conditions
• Pure Revelation Comes without Sensory Mediators
• Function Precedes Beauty in Architecture
• Time Is the Linking of Time to an Event
• Teaching the Names Is Teaching Characteristics
• Non-Contradiction Is the Basis of Abstract Thought
• the Mother of the Book’s Verses Explain Prohibitions
• the Mother of the Book Is the Foundation of Muhammad’s Messengerhood
• the Mother of the Book Consists of the Clear Verses
• Report Is Connected to Presence and Witnessing
• Associating Partners with God Is the First of the Prohibitions
• Rituals Fall under Elaboration
• Worship Is Voluntary Submission to God
• Indecency Includes What Is Outward and Inward
• The Clear Verses Do Not Admit Independent Reasoning
• Tidings Concern the Unseen
• The Qurayshite Character of the Arabic Tongue
• Father and Mother Are Social Relations
• the Community Is a Bond of Unified Conduct
• Excess Is Transgressing the Limit
• Disavowal Has Specific Conditions and Domains
• Disavowal Is Renunciation, Not Absolute Enmity
• A People Are a Group with One System
• Honor Is Dignity and Public Reputation
• the Qur’an Is the Only Revelation
• Nationality Is the Bond of Language and Thought
• Expression, Speech, and Utterance
• the Clear Verse Represents the Mother of the Book
• Utterance → the Instrument of Intelligible Expression
• Parents Are Biological, While Father and Mother Are Educational
• Loyalty Is a Voluntary Social Relationship
• The Definition of Death and Perishing
• The Definition of Perishing as Final Extinction
• God’s Words Are the Laws of Existence
• Hanifism Is a Quality of Legislative Change
• the Spirit Is Knowledge and Legislation
• Bosoms Are the Places of Hidden Adornment
• Marriage Is a Solemn Covenant
• Process Is the Movement of Time
• Becoming Is the Final Outcome
• Being Is Existing Existence
• The Shares of Ascendants and Descendants Are Specified