The book brings together the contemporary reading of the Qur’an breaks with inherited tradition and rests on a scientific method and inherited jurisprudence is a historical human construct that does not possess authority equal to that of the Qur’an to establish a methodological rupture that reorganizes the sources of religious knowledge. This rupture extends into the ethical and political sphere through Islam, for Shahrur, is a pluralistic ethical framework, not a coercive ritual system and plurality is a Qur’anic condition for development, whereas monism produces ruin and despotism and the civil state in the Muhammadan message derives its legitimacy from human beings and governs by law. In this way, the book formulates a coherent thesis that fidelity to the Qur’an requires liberating the human being, society, and politics from clerical authority, coercion, and monism.