What Is Meant
This passage presents a call attributed to Shahrur: that “the duty of the contemporary person is to free himself from traditional jurisprudence.” It establishes the basic call, not the details of its method or its practical consequences.
(A) What Is Attributed to Shahrur
The available evidence states: “Shahrur maintains that the duty of the contemporary person is to free himself from traditional jurisprudence.”
Thus, the documented claim here is a directive to the “contemporary person” to free himself from “traditional jurisprudence.”
(B) Atlas Explanation
This atom is to be read as a record of a critical stance toward traditional jurisprudence. On the basis of this evidence alone, it does not offer a comprehensive definition of traditional jurisprudence or specific steps for what liberation from it entails. For the term itself, see traditional jurisprudence.
(C) Conclusion
This call can be connected to a broader axis in the atlas, critique of heritage, jurisprudence, and exegesis, but this connection is organizational within the atlas and does not constitute proof of additional details beyond the wording of the evidence.
(D) Open Question
The evidence does not explain the reason for the call in detail: it does not, by itself, establish that traditional jurisprudence was formulated for its own era, nor that it is inherently unsuitable for the present or for the twenty-first century. Nor does it specify a criterion for distinguishing between what in traditional jurisprudence should be transcended and what may remain open to consideration.
For the book’s general context: Muhammad Shahrur: the Mother of the Book and Its Elaboration. For the atom’s relation to another argumentative structure in the book: The limited divine prohibition negates the Messenger’s independent legislative authority.