This index gathers the structure within the book The Book and the Qur’an and links it to the index of claims.
Structure pages
- Legal rulings have lower and upper limits
- Human settlement arose from livestock and agriculture
- Islam affirms the basis of the arts and does not prohibit them
- Inzāl and Tanzīl differ in their relation to consciousness
- Sensory interpretation and theoretical interpretation
- Interpretation is the end of meaning and develops historically
- Interpretation is the criterion for matching report with reality and reason
- Legislation and judgment must harmonize with changing reality
- Previous legislations were transitional and specific
- Dialectic and contradiction are foundations in building abstract understanding
- Dialectic and duality are two laws for interpreting change
- Beauty develops historically and does not remain fixed
- Lordship and divinity
- Spirit, humanness, and language are interdependent
- Time in the Qur’anic conception is relative and tied to the event
- The Sharia distinguishes between limits, commandments, and rites
- Poetry and literature stand at the top of the artistic hierarchy
- Satan distorts perception between illusion and reality
- Internal conflict explains cosmic transformation
- Architecture begins with function, then comes beauty
- Qur’anic understanding distinguishes between objective law and human choice
- Obscenities and desires are interpreted within the distinction between self and history
- The Qur’an was made Arabic, then revealed
- The Qur’an is guidance for all people
- The Qur’an and the Mother of the Book
- The Qur’an is a timeless revelation, not inherited tradition
- The Qur’an combines scientific and literary qualities
- The Qur’an distinguishes between the fixed and the variable
- Qur’anic narratives are among the reports
- The Muhammadan narrative is historical archiving
- The Book, destiny, and will are concepts that organize the relation between existence and knowledge
- The meaning of the Book differs according to the message
- The Book includes internal sections
- Disbelief and associating partners are contextual concepts, not tools of power
- Ambiguous passages are the domain of interpretation
- Human knowledge is relative and progresses from sense perception to mathematics
- Knowledge begins with sensation and ends with discernment
- Abrogation does not occur within the Muhammadan message; it pertains to previous messages
- Revelation and dream differ because the former is non-sensory and the latter consists of disordered images
- Commandments organize moral, social, and family life
- The transmission of divine knowledge occurs in two ways
- The constancy of the text and the movement of content
- Rejecting synonymy among the terms of revelation
- The Night of Decree and the beginning of Qur’anic proclamation
- The Book project is based on a precise contemporary reading and a comprehensive method
- The Qur’an is read and recited according to context
- Remembrance and the Qur’an between worship and knowledge