What Does the Evidence Establish?
The evidence presents an interpretation attributed to Shahrur according to which what is meant by the theft verse is preventing theft and restraining the hand from it, rather than physical amputation. It mentions prevention or imprisonment as two means of such restraint.
The Legislative Framework in the Evidence
The evidence links this interpretation to an understanding of Qur’anic penalties as limits open to interpretation and codification according to the age, rather than treating them as fixed, literal bodily measures. For the broader structural context, see Qur’anic penalties are civil limits open to regulation, not fixed bodily measures.
Limit of the Evidence
The available text is an explanatory formulation of “Shahrur’s theses,” not a raw quotation from the book, and it does not specify the conditions for prevention or imprisonment, or the details of the codification mechanism. Therefore, the page does not go beyond what the evidence explicitly states.