Thesis Summary
Shahrur links Islam to freedom, dignity, and human values, and makes true loyalty to Islam a loyalty to these values, not to persons or to authority. From here, resistance to tyranny becomes an extension of this understanding.
Foundational Atoms
- Freedom is the foundation of human dignity
- Loyalty to Islam is loyalty to human values
- Islam is loyalty to human values
Place of Support Within the Book
This meaning appears in the middle section of Islam and Human, within the discussion of loyalty, the civil state, and the human covenant.
Limits of the Reading
This summary brings together more than one passage in the book, and keeps the relation between Islam and freedom within the limits indicated by the documented atoms.