This index gathers the clusters within the book Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence and links them to the index of claims.
Cluster Pages
- The new foundations of jurisprudence are based on distinguishing between the permanence of the text and the historicity of understanding
- Political history turned the message into a legitimization of kingship and authority
- Legislation is governed by textual limits and by distinguishing between prohibition and restriction
- The message rebuilds society and the family on the basis of equality and contractual agreement
- The universality of the message requires a Qur’anic reading independent of historicity and transmission
- Women’s dress is understood from the text as a limit and a function, not as a fixed inherited symbol