The Book: Guide to the Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation

17 pages

• The pillars of Islam and the pillars of faith
• The Mother of the Book is closed to ijtihad
• Those vested with authority are a legislative authority
• The human being is not the same as humankind
• Elaboration explains the definitive
• Distinguishing between Islam and faith
• Hanifism is a quality of legislative change
• The Muhammadan message is a transitional stage
• The spirit is knowledge and legislation
• The prophetic Sunna and contextual ijtihad
• Correct reading and correspondence to reality
• Language serves meaning
• What is variable is human legislation
• The methodological approach to contemporary reading
• The fixity of the text and the changeability of understanding
• Restricting prohibition to God
• The limits of absolute understanding