Argument type: Critical

95 pages

• The heritage should be set aside
• The combat narrative is not a Qur’anic اصل
• The common meaning of martyr is late
• Monism leads to ruin
• Monism produces the unjust village
• Modern monistic systems are a continuation of the village
• Falsehood disables the mind and generates guilt
• Despotism is the hallmark of monistic thought
• The affluent drive rural deviation
• Multiplying prohibitions narrows religion
• Rejecting the confinement of right-hand possession to slavery
• Forms of despotism reinforce one another
• People of the covenant is a historical term
• Old tools impede Islamic knowledge
• Traditional bayʿa and obedience support despotism
• The Islamic heritage has become a religion in itself
• The heritage conflated rule with sovereignty
• Jahiliyya is redefined to include the modern West
• Polar sovereignty divides the world into Islam and Jahiliyya
• Religious authority is like Haman
• Financial power is like Qarun
• Taghut is a coercive authority
• Despotism hinders development
• Violence is used to justify establishing the desired order
• Conflating jurisprudence with legislation causes a deadlock
• Many rulings are remnants of earlier times
• Unseen-realm hadith reports are rejected by him
• Contradictory hadith reports are rejected
• Qur’anic approval is not exclusive to the Companions
• The Sunna is a tool of sectarian conflict
• Some prophetic reports are rejected
• Shahrur rejects equating speech with utterance
• The legendary image of the Messenger
• The crisis of knowledge in the Arab mind
• The sayings of the Prophet and the Companions are not sacred texts
• Synonymy obstructs the construction of knowledge
• Legislation monopolizes divine prohibition
• Conflating concepts generates takfir
• The Arab mind suffers from three maladies
• Inherited jurisprudence does not correspond to the Qur’an
• Inherited jurisprudence is separate from the Qur’an
• An authoritarian society produces despotism
• Conflating concepts generates sectarianism
• Israelite traditions distort the Qur’anic narratives
• Israelite traditions entered exegesis
• The charge of borrowing from Nestorianism is not well-founded
• Distortion is partial in meaning and context
• The reports diminish women
• The Salafi mind is a static, diagnostic mind
• The Salafi mind strips الإنسان of the right to understand
• The Salafi mind marginalizes the human being
• The jurist and the ruler dominate reality
• Woman is not the cause of temptation
• Objectives become a tool of power
• Abrogation is a tool of fragmentation
• Inherited exegesis obscures the text
• The Salafi reading makes the past an absolute authority
• Juristic analogical reasoning does not apply to narratives
• Generalizing the occasions of revelation leads to determinism
• The story of Adam is stripped of mythologization
• A critique of the Salafi reading of narratives
• Satan turns truth into illusion
• The satanic mind produces illusion and superstition
• Disbelief is a contextual, changing concept
• The science of abrogating and abrogated is a delusion
• Interpretation froze intellectual movement
• Interpretation is the cause of disagreement
• Liberation from inherited jurisprudence
• Synonymy is a root cause of heritage-based confusion
• Heritage-based stagnation is the cause of marginalization
• Heritage jurisprudence is not contemporary legislation
• Inherited jurisprudence is not fit for the present
• The hypertrophy of heritage classification
• Restricting prohibitions protects against manipulation
• The dominance of the science of exegesis
• Hadith reports that deny the effect of deeds
• Consensus is not an absolute proof
• Assassinations and bombing civilians are a departure from combat
• Sovereignty is a slogan for coercive power
• The discourse on al-Jassasa and the Antichrist
• Salafism is a gateway to violence
• Individual killing is not part of lawful combat
• Disbelief and polytheism are not absolute rulings
• The heritage conflates jihad, combat, and raiding
• The occasions of revelation are extraneous historical sciences
• The origin of accusing women of sin
• Clothing political conflict in religious garb
• The Umayyads used obedience to those in authority
• Inherited jurisprudence is a historical understanding
• Arab society lacks processual becoming
• Abrogation diminishes the universality of the message
• Some differences among readings are later scribal corruptions
• Interpreting the text outside its context is more dangerous than fabrication
• The heritage conflates dress with religion
• The concepts of honor and nakedness are historical