What Is Meant Here?
What is meant is the attribution to Shahrur of the statement that religion before God is one, and that its name is Islam; in this sense, Islam is not limited to a single message. The available material establishes no more than this general formulation.
What Is Attributed to Shahrur
The episode material records that Shahrur holds that religion before God is one, that its name is Islam, and that all previous messages fell within this Islam in its universal sense. This is based on the source editor’s paraphrase, not on a quotation from the episode.
Atlas Explanation
This page should be read as a preliminary record of attribution, not as a complete definition of the term Islam. The available material does not present Shahrur’s own wording or the episode’s context explaining what is meant by the “universal sense.”
Conclusion
The record alone does not establish that laws or rituals are identical, nor that the distinction between Islam and faith has been demonstrated in this atom. These matters require independent evidence.
Open Question and Documentation Limits
What exact wording did Shahrur use in episode 14? And how does he define “Islam in its universal sense” in that context? The original episode must be consulted, and then compared with the books linked below, before the claim is relied upon in precise academic citation.
Related books: Islam and Faith, Religion and Power, Towards New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence.