What is meant
What is meant is that “Sunna,” “counteraction,” and the “Qur’anic narrative” are understood here as keys for reading human evolution, not as a justification for conflict or domination They link the religious text to preserving plurality and the possibility of coexistence among people
The atom’s structure in the atlas
- Type of argument: Historical
- Argument movement: It uses Sunna, counteraction, and narrative to read human evolution and plurality.
- Key terms: Sunna, counteraction, evolution.
- Degree of centrality: Central.
The atom links text to the movement of history, and offers keys for understanding plurality and coexistence as part of the patterns of human transformation, not as an exception to them.
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Basis
- Supporting text: “It reinterprets the concepts of ‘Sunna,’ ‘counteraction,’ and ‘the Qur’anic narrative’ as tools for understanding human evolution and preserving plurality and coexistence, not for perpetuating conflict and domination.”
Place of support in the book
- Book: The Qur’anic Narrative, vol. 1.
- Location: in the middle section of the book
- Type of support: Close evidence.
- Verification marker: Major human liberation
- Reading note: The location links the Qur’anic narrative to human emancipation and the understanding of history, and it is a suitable close support for the atom.
Degree of documentation
- Level: Directly documented
- Meaning of the level: The atom relies on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Limits of reading: The formulation above is an analytical summary, and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is quoted textually.
Its function in the book
Its function here is definitional; it establishes a meaning or conceptual distinction on which Shahrur relies in constructing the idea.
Editorial note
Useful in linking the Qur’anic method to the idea of social evolution.