What Is Attributed to Shahrur
The attestation states: “while legislation is the prerogative of elected or legislative councils.” This explicitly assigns legislative authority to the councils named in the statement.
Atlas Explanation
This atom records the locus of authority as stated in the text: an elected or legislative council. It does not add an institutional definition of the council or a description of its procedures.
Synthetic Inference
The statement may be read as an institutional specification of the locus of legislation: in the wording of the attestation, it is a council’s prerogative. This is an interpretive connection to the broader trajectory in Muhammad Shahrur Religion and Authority and the page The Civil State, Religion, and Authority, not a definition derived from this attestation alone.
Open Question and Limits
The attestation alone does not indicate whether Shahrur denies any religious body legislative authority, nor how the councils are elected or the precise limits of their powers. For the related context of the relationship between jurisprudence and law, see Jurisprudence Is Historical and Civil Law Is Separate from It.
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