Intended meaning
This passage links the civil project attributed to the message with the expansion of the field of equality between men and women. It can also be understood to mean that this equality extends to guardianship, inheritance, and social and political rights.
The atom’s structure in the atlas
- Type of argument: value-based
- Movement of the argument: equality between men and women is presented as an extension of the civil project.
- Key terms: equality, man, woman, rights, guardianship.
- Degree of centrality: secondary.
It connects gender equality to the broader civil framework, and hints at its impact on social and political rights, without spelling out that impact independently.
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Basis
- Supporting text: «with the expansion of the field of equality between men and women».
Place of the basis in the book
- Book: The Qur’an in Contemporary Thought.
- Location: in the first section of the book, within the presentation of legislative themes.
- Type of basis: near evidence.
- Marker that helps verification: the principle of equality in inheritance
- Reading note: this location works as support because it explicitly mentions the principle of equality in inheritance, which is consistent with the idea of expanding equality between men and women.
Degree of documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom rests on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Limits of the reading: the wording above is an analytical summary, and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is quoted textually.
Its function in the book
Its function here is declarative; it establishes a result on which what follows in the argument depends.
Editorial note
The atom belongs to a broader discourse on pluralism and citizenship.