Intended meaning
Shahrur holds that the Qur’an establishes pluralism in society and does not endorse the monopolization of opinion or authority. It also prevents political and religious monism and opens the way for a diversity of positions within the Qur’anic framework.
The atom’s structure in the atlas
- Type of argument: value-based
- Movement of the argument: It links the Qur’an to pluralism and negates monism.
- Key terms: the Qur’an, pluralism, monism.
- Degree of centrality: central.
This atom makes the Qur’an a framework that prevents the monopolization of opinion or authority, and links legitimacy to the diversity of positions within a general Qur’anic reference.
Links that help with reading
- Muhammad Shahrur, The State and Society
- Critique of authoritarianism and monism
- the Qur’an
- pluralism
- monism
Basis
- Supporting text: “He affirms that the Qur’an establishes pluralism and prevents political and religious monism.”
Location of the basis in the book
- Book: The State and Society.
- Location: at the beginning of the book, within the main idea of social history
- Type of basis: direct evidence.
- Marker that helps verification: between monism and pluralism
- Reading note: the text explicitly states that the law governing the course of history is the contradiction between monism and pluralism, which clearly establishes the atom.
Degree of documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom relies on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Limits of the reading: the formulation above is an analytical summary and is not treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is quoted verbatim.
Its function in the book
Its function here is declarative; it establishes a result on which what follows in the argument depends.
Related to
Editorial note
The atom establishes the value of pluralism rather than the monopolization of truth or rule.