Degree of Centrality: Subordinate

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• Sins against God are open to forgiveness
• Militant doctrine is of two different kinds
• Transnational allegiance is a personal religious matter
• National allegiance preserves identity
• Divine absolution and revelation
• Merciful absolution and material proof
• The militant narrative is not a Qur’anic أصل
• The breast signifies the brain
• God’s knowledge encompasses human thoughts
• Patriarchy followed transformations in ownership
• The family began as the first human cell
• Economy arises from the development of instincts
• Thamūd is a union of multiple tribes
• Polytheism rests on illusory permanence
• The American people bring together multiple ethnicities and nations
• The French people cohere into a single state
• Mono-cultural villages are doomed to destruction
• The affluent drive rural deviance
• Destruction differs from death
• The significance of the boy and the girl
• Fields of right-hand possession
• The meaning of ‘abd in usage
• Ahl al-dhimma is a historical term
• Europe has moved beyond inherited symbols
• Idols are not forbidden in themselves
• Coercion excuses in some cases
• Internal and external occupation
• Filial devotion is an innate value
• Expression is acquired through education
• Jāhiliyya is redefined to include the modern West
• The Khawarij emerged from political conflict
• Financial power, like Qarun’s
• Disobedience toward parents has no prescribed limit
• Suppressing freedom legitimizes jihad
• The three stages of sovereignty
• Heritage contains universal moral wisdom
• Qur’anic wisdom is not the prophetic Sunna
• Human Sunna is changeable
• Some prophetic reports are rejected
• Legislation monopolizes divine prohibition
• Al-Shafi’i is a jurisprudential turning point
• The city is a pluralistic society
• Equality between men and women
• Iblis is necessary for human dialectic
• Isra’iliyyat entered exegesis
• The charge of borrowing from Nestorianism is not well founded
• Equalization and adjustment are preparatory stages
• The Qur’an confirms some of what came before
• Objectives become an instrument of power
• Occasions of revelation are not a universal key
• Banīn may mean structures
• The Flood was a local event in Mesopotamia
• Juristic analogy does not extend to narratives
• God’s knowledge does not entail determinism
• The story of Joseph supports a rational reading
• Hud represents a later civilizational stage
• The ummi is neither Jewish nor Christian
• Livestock and agriculture contributed to stability
• Islam does not forbid the arts in principle
• Endurance belongs to God, not to time
• Dialectic is a law founded on opposites
• Beauty comes after function
• Hanifiyya is movement within the limits
• The Seven Oft-Repeated are from prophethood
• Dwelling evolved from function to architecture
• A year is a relative temporal measure
• Poetry and literature are the highest arts
• Desires are part of human development
• Satan turns truth into illusion
• In Qur’anic usage, the general is tied to the event
• The Muhammadan narratives are for edification, not legislation
• The heart is the center of reasoning
• Function precedes beauty in architecture
• Attention to the semantic dimension of texts
• The revelation is a stage of knowledge, not only eloquence
• Euthanasia differs from suicide
• The Quraysh dialect is closer to eloquence
• The historical emergence of Qur’anic sciences
• The dominance of exegesis as a discipline
• Excess is transgression beyond the limit
• The account of al-Jassasa and the Dajjal
• Emotions are not a normative criterion in creed
• The parents are biological, while the fathers are educational
• Religious allegiance is non-exclusionary
• Allegiance and disavowal follow conduct
• Allegiance varies according to levels of belonging
• Confusing cause with purpose turns fighting into permanence
• The detailed explains the definitive
• The exemplar is a reformist path worthy of emulation
• The nearer excludes the more distant
• The jilbab is a gradual instruction
• The dispensation is almost confined to food
• The saw’a is not the vulva
• The Abbasids relied on kinship and inheritance
• Kalāla has two different forms
• Some reading variants are later scribal distortions
• The shares of spouses and siblings are subject to change
• The station of prophethood is the station of the unseen and tidings