The unifying idea
This page argues for a Qur’anic reading that restores the centrality of the human being and purifies understanding from authoritarianism and from narratives that have distorted meaning.
The propositions included in the axis
- The Salafi reading marginalizes the human being and subjects them to authority.
- The Isra’iliyyat and abrogation and being abrogated corrupt the reading of the text.
- Woman in the Qur’anic narratives is not held responsible for seduction or inferiority.
- Islam is a universal human message.
The axis supported by the atoms
- The Salafi mind marginalizes the human being
- The Salafi mind strips the human being of the right to understand
- The Isra’iliyyat distort the Qur’anic narratives
- The Isra’iliyyat entered exegesis
- Woman is not the cause of temptation
- The Qur’an does not establish woman’s inferiority
- The human being is the principal agent of history
The method of reading
The axis places the human being at the center of understanding and treats inherited narratives as open to reconsideration. Thus the narratives are read here as a field of liberation, not of fixation.