Atoms: Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence

This index gathers the atoms within the book Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence and links them to the index of claims.

Atom pages

• Inheritance verses are general laws
• The Verse of al-Ahzab is educational, not legislative
• The verse on theft does not impose amputation
• The Verse of Light sets a minimum threshold for dress
• Occasions of revelation restrict the Qur’anic text
• Occasions of revelation are intrusive historical sciences
• The origin of accusing woman of sin
• General verses do not address special cases
• Inheritance is a fallback rule when there is no bequest
• Inheritance achieves general justice
• Historical Islam is a conditioned understanding
• The exemplar is a reformist model to be followed
• The nearer excludes the farther
• The Umayyads used obedience to those in authority
• Dressing political conflict in religious garb
• The house remains the wife’s right
• Prohibition is God’s alone right
• Prohibition requires a messengerial authority
• Polygyny is conditional
• Polygyny is linked to widows and orphans
• Distinguishing between the forbidden and the prohibited
• The jilbab is a gradual instructional measure
• The bosoms are the places of concealed adornment
• The first sin was not sexual
• The khimar is a covering drawn over the bosoms
• The modern state forbids; it does not declare unlawful
• Democracy is a technique for practicing shura
• The dispensation is almost confined to food
• The Muhammadan message ended the age of masculinity
• The Messenger practiced civil legislation
• Marriage is a solemn covenant
• The private part is not the genital opening
• Process is the movement of time
• Becoming is the final outcome
• Divorce is a reciprocal right
• The world needs becoming
• The Abbasids relied on kinship and inheritance
• Justice in inheritance is collective
• The fixed shares and limits in inheritance
• Inherited jurisprudence is a historical understanding
• The village symbolizes singularity
• Cutting is a term with a broad meaning
• Guardianship includes both man and woman
• Contemporary restrictions violate equality
• Kalala has two different forms
• Being is existing existence
• Dress is more precise than hijab
• Arab society lacks becoming
• Equality between woman and man
• Abrogation diminishes the universality of the message
• The Qur’anic text is fixed and understanding is changing
• The bequest achieves particular justice
• The bequest takes precedence over inheritance
• The hand is force, not a bodily limb
• Some differences in recitations are later scribal corruption
• Interpreting the text outside its context is more dangerous than fabrication
• The triad of being, process, and becoming
• The minimum limit of women’s dress
• Shares of spouses and siblings are subject to change
• Shares of ascendants and descendants are fixed
• The inherited tradition conflates dress and religion
• The authority of the text overrides grammatical rule
• “Do not approach” indicates direct proximity
• There is no room for arbitrariness or addition in the revelation
• The space of dress lies between the two limits
• The concepts of honor and nakedness are historical
• The station of messengership is the station of legislation and organization
• The station of prophethood is the station of the unseen and tidings
• Those owned by right hand are a contractual relationship
• The function of dress is to ward off harm
• The striking in the verse of women is a withdrawal of guardianship
• Discord is a stage preceding separation
• The share in inheritance and the portion in the bequest