Summary of the Thesis
Shahrur makes freedom the primary purpose of the Sharia, and reclassifies much of what has been called the purposes of the Sharia as public rights and freedoms. On this basis, safeguarding freedom becomes the responsibility of both the state and society.
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Foundational Atoms
Place of Support Within the Book
This idea appears in the later section of the book, where the purposes are reconnected to rights and freedoms instead of being left in closed juristic formulations.
Limits of the Reading
This summary does not replace all jurisprudence with politics; rather, it is limited to what is stated about linking the purposes to freedom and public rights.