Intended Meaning
This passage does not say that the entire Book is a domain of fixed rulings. Rather, fixed rulings are attributed to the “Mother of the Book,” defined as the clear verses of the message. By contrast, the detailing of the Book is presented as a domain of human ijtihad.
What Is Attributed to Shahrur
The cited passage presents an explicit division: the Mother of the Book consists of the clear verses of the message, containing fixed rulings; the detailing of the Book is the detailing of the verses of the Mother of the Book and a domain of human ijtihad. It also describes the ambiguous verses as the verses of prophethood/the Qur’an, open to interpretation, confirmation, and denial.
Atlas Explanation
The page records the structure of this division as stated and preserves the distinction between its terms: the “Mother of the Book” is not the “detailing of the Book,” and neither is identical with the “ambiguous verses” in this passage. Accordingly, the phrase “legislative stability” in the page title is limited to the place of the Mother of the Book/the clear verses of the message, rather than generalized to all divisions of the Book.
For the broader context: Muhammad Shahrur: Drying Up the Springs of Terrorism, and Legislation, Limits, and Prohibition.
Synthetic Conclusion
This division can be read as distributing two domains: that of fixed rulings in the Mother of the Book, and that of ijtihad in its detailing. This is an organizational inference from the statement itself, not a detailed explanation of the rules of ijtihad.
Open Question and Limit of the Evidence
The cited passage alone does not explain the criteria governing the “detailing of the Book,” nor how cases falling under fixed rulings or under the domain of ijtihad are determined. Moreover, the location of the passage is specified only at the section level, and its data provides neither a printed page nor raw context to support further detail.