What Is Meant
Shahrur holds that the role of jurisprudence in the civil state should not go beyond organizing religious rituals Its function here is devotional, not legislative, while civil law remains a separate domain from jurisprudence
The Atom’s Structure in the Atlas
- Type of argument: legislative
- Argument movement: in his view, the role of jurisprudence is devotional and ritual-based and does not extend beyond the civil state.
- Key terms: jurists, rituals, civil state, civil law.
- Degree of centrality: central.
This atom defines the limits of jurisprudence’s function within the civil state, preventing it from competing with public law. Its value lies in separating worship from civil organization.
Links That Help Reading
- Muhammad Shahrur, Religion and Authority
- Legislation, Limits, and Prohibition
- civil state
- Jurisprudence is historical, and civil law is separate from it
Support
- Supporting text: «He affirms that the role of jurisprudence in the civil state must be confined to rituals».
Degree of Documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom is based on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Limits of the reading: the formulation above is an analytical summary and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is cited textually.
Its Function in the Book
Its function here is methodological; it regulates the mode of reading or inference that the book follows.
Related To
Editorial Note
The atom organizes the juristic field; it does not expand it.