Thesis Summary
Shahrur sees change as understood through two complementary laws: dialectic, as movement within contradictions, and duality, as interaction between two distinct poles. Through them, he reads movement in the cosmos and in existence.
Foundational Atoms
Place of Citation within the Book
This meaning rests on the middle sections of the Book and the Qur’an when it links the development of life to the laws of change and influence.
Limits of the Reading
This reading does not make duality synonymous with dialectic, but presents them as two adjacent laws in explaining movement. It is a concise summary that does not go beyond the explicitly stated meaning.