This index gathers the structure within the book Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence and links it to the index of claims.
Structure pages
- The verse of al-Ahzab is a situational directive, not a permanent dress code
- The verse of al-Nur sets a minimum for dress and leaves the rest to custom
- Accusing woman of sin is not Qur’anic
- Avoidance is not the same as prohibition
- Inheritance is a collective legal system with class-based constraints
- Historical Islam is a historically conditioned understanding
- Legislation and prohibition belong to the message, not the state
- Distinguishing between the forbidden and the prohibited frees jurisprudence from terminological confusion
- Distinguishing between the station of messengership and the station of prophethood
- Hijab, as a concept of dress, does not match common customs
- The Muhammadian message establishes gender equality
- The Muhammadian message is universal
- Marriage and ownership in the shari’a are to be reinterpreted contractually
- The Sunna and Hadith are not one and the same
- The conflict after the Prophet’s death was political
- Divorce is a mutual right, and the house remains with the wife
- Jurisprudence needs to be re-founded
- A historical reading of the Qur’an rejects restricting its universality
- The village and the city are symbols of a social structure between singularity and plurality
- The Book has a dual structure of the decisive and the ambiguous
- Woman and man are equal, and contrary restrictions must be reconsidered
- Existence cannot be understood except through the inseparability of being, process, and becoming
- Bequest is a special principle, while inheritance is a general residual law
- The circles of those nearest in the bequest
- Categories of bequest beneficiaries other than heirs
- Understanding religion and legislation is based on the triad of being, process, and becoming
- The concepts of honor and sexual propriety are not rooted in the Revelation’s reference frame