This index gathers the structure within the book the Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna and links it to the index of claims.
Structure pages
- Hadiths are used to justify political domination
- The hadith tradition is a human, conjectural production
- Early political change turns into despotism
- Intellectual change precedes political change
- The messengerly Sunna has its own scope and limits
- The messengerly Sunna is binding because it is connected to the message and legislation
- Contemporary Sunna is understood through Qur’anic terms, not inherited sacralization
- The prophetic Sunna is historical and contextual and is not followed as a permanent legal code
- Sunna is divided into messengerly and prophetic according to context
- Sunna is divided into messengerly and prophetic
- Sunna is not a source parallel to revelation
- The Book alone is a text free of doubt
- For Shahrur, prophethood is a historical function in organization, ijtihad, and state-building
- Shahrur reads hadith as history open to criticism, not as a final criterion