It is treated here as the highest reference that must be read in a contemporary way, not through the heritage of jurisprudence alone. In Muhammad Shahrur’s view, it is the fixed text on which the new reading is built, and it is separated from jurisprudence as a historical human understanding.
- The sayings of the Prophet and the Companions are historical documents
- Rebuilding Islamic thought requires liberating knowledge, jurisprudence, and politics by returning to the Qur’an
- The sharia allows human ijtihad
- The sharia opens the field of ijtihad
- Inherited jurisprudence is a human historical construction that does not possess authority equal to the Qur’an
- Inherited jurisprudence does not match the Qur’an
- Inherited jurisprudence is separate from the Qur’an
- Jurisprudence is a historical human heritage that does not possess authority equal to the Qur’an
- Jurisprudence is a historical human understanding
- The Qur’an in contemporary thought reconstitutes the understanding of religion on the basis of the Qur’an, ijtihad, pluralism, and the civil state
- The Qur’an receives a new contemporary reading
- The Qur’an is the highest reference for liberating Islamic thought and building a pluralistic civil Islam
- The Qur’an is a renewed reference that requires a contemporary reading and open-ended ijtihad
- The Qur’an is the highest reference
- The Qur’an is read in a contemporary way
- The contemporary reading requires modern sciences
- The contemporary reading of the Qur’an breaks with inherited tradition and rests on a scientific method
- The pluralistic society evolves
- Equality between men and women
- Modern knowledge is necessary for understanding the Qur’an
- The center of Islam is the Word of God