For Muhammad Shahrur, it is a value framework broader than rituals, tied to God, human values, and plurality. It is also understood as a message that opened the door to ijtihad and stripped religion of the logic of closure and clerical authority.
- Rebuilding Islamic thought requires liberating knowledge, jurisprudence, and politics by returning to the Qur’an
- Islam is broader than rituals
- Islam in Shahrur is a pluralistic value framework, not a coercive ritual system
- Islam in Shahrur is a value framework that entrenches conceptual distinction and plurality
- Islam distinguishes between concepts
- The civil state in the Muhammadan message derives its legitimacy from people and governs by law
- The Muhammadan message opens the door to ijtihad
- The Muhammadan message abolishes clerical authority
- The Muhammadan message abolishes clerical authority and hereditary privilege
- The Muhammadan message opened the door to ijtihad
- Political legitimacy comes from human allegiance
- Traditional jurisprudence is a historical construct
- Inherited jurisprudence is a human historical construct that does not possess authority equal to the Qur’an
- Inherited jurisprudence is a human historical construct
- Inherited jurisprudence does not correspond to the Qur’an
- Inherited jurisprudence is separate from the Qur’an
- The Qur’an in contemporary thought re-establishes the understanding of religion on the authority of the Qur’an, ijtihad, plurality, and the civil state
- The Qur’an is the supreme reference for liberating Islamic thought and building a pluralistic civil Islam
- The Qur’an is a renewed reference that requires a contemporary reading and open ijtihad
- The contemporary reading of the Qur’an breaks with inherited tradition and rests on a scientific method
- The pluralistic civil system is the alternative to religious and political monism
- Confusing concepts gives rise to sectarianism
- The center of Islam is the word of God
Cross-book concept: See Islam for the unifying axis across the books.