Intended Meaning
The intended meaning is that the law of duality, or complementary dualism, explains how each side affects the other and is affected by it, so that a state of adaptation arises between them Here, this duality is not an internal contradiction within the thing itself, but a relation between two distinct things
The Atom’s Structure in the Atlas
- Type of argument: methodological
- Movement of the argument: it makes duality a law of mutual influence and adaptation.
- Central terms: duality, complementary dualism, mutual influence, adaptation.
- Degree of centrality: central.
It provides an explanatory model for change based on the relation between two sides, and helps in reading phenomena as interaction in which there is no isolation.
Links that help with reading
- Muhammad Shahrur, the Book and the Qur’an
- History, Evolution, and Sunan
- Dialectic and Duality Are Two Laws for Explaining Change
Basis
- Supporting text: “The law of duality/complementary dualism that explains mutual influence and adaptation.”
Degree of Documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom is based on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Limits of reading: the formulation above is an analytical summary, and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is transmitted verbatim.
Its Function in the Book
Its function here is definitional; it sets the meaning or conceptual distinction on which Shahrur relies in building the idea.
Related to
Editorial Note
The atom is linked to a broader explanatory structure of change.