Shahrur distinguishes between al-insan and al-bashar, and makes al-insan a higher rank grounded in consciousness and spirit. In this formulation, the concept serves his construction of a distinction between the biological level and the cognitive-ethical level in the human being.
Referred to by
- Reordering doctrinal and human concepts
- The human is not the human being
- The human is a conscious rank, and spirit is knowledge and legislation
- Contemporary interpretation makes the constancy of the Revelation a basis for historical ijtihad in understanding, legislation, and creed
- Prohibition and human legislation are two separate domains
- Spirit is knowledge and legislation
- What is variable is human legislation
- The limits of absolute understanding
- The method of reading and renewed interpretation