The book’s thesis defends a reading that makes the methodology of renewed reading and interpretation the organizing entry point for understanding the text, and it links this to the distinction between the divine and the human in legislation and the message so that God’s limits are not confused with people’s ijtihad and the historical prophetic experience. It also reconstructs the religious and human conception through a rearrangement of creedal and human concepts, in a way that distinguishes between Islam and faith, and between human beings, the human, and the spirit. In this way, contemporary reading becomes an integrated project that links the fixed text to the movement of history and knowledge.