The book calls for reconstituting the foundations of jurisprudence by distinguishing between the fixity of the Qur’an and the transformation of understanding; accordingly, the new foundations of jurisprudence rest on distinguishing between the fixity of the text and the historicity of understanding are integrated with the universality of the message requires a Qur’anic reading independent of historicity and transmission in making the Qur’an the highest authority. The argument then extends into the practical sphere through legislation is governed by textual limits and by distinguishing between prohibition and prevention, and into social life and the family through the message rebuilds society and the family on the basis of equality and contract and women’s dress is understood from the text as a limit and a function, not as a fixed traditional symbol. And political history turned the message into a legitimation of kingship and authority reveals that a large part of the inherited tradition resulted from a historical instrumentalization of the message, not from the requirements of the text itself.