It is presented as a historical human understanding of the text, not as equivalent to the Qur’an or sacred like it. The source makes its critique central to Muhammad Shahrur’s project, because he sees much of it as detached from the Qur’an and bound to the age of compilation.
- Rebuilding Islamic thought requires liberating knowledge, jurisprudence, and politics through a return to the Qur’an
- Al-Shafi’i as a jurisprudential turning point
- 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 detached from the Qur’an
- Jurisprudence is a human historical heritage that does not possess authority equal to the Qur’an
- Jurisprudence is a human historical understanding
- The Qur’an in contemporary thought reconstitutes the understanding of religion on the basis of the Qur’an, ijtihad, plurality, and the civil state
- The Qur’an: a new contemporary reading
- The Qur’an is the supreme reference for liberating Islamic thought and building a plural civil Islam
- The Qur’an is read through a contemporary reading
- The contemporary reading of the Qur’an breaks with inherited tradition and rests on a scientific method
Cross-book concept: See jurisprudence for the overarching theme across the books.