What Is Meant Here?
What is meant in the accompanying description is that marriage is not reduced to the “financial marriage contract,” but is understood through a “binding covenant” connected to shared life. This is a qualified statement based on what the available material records, not a direct quotation from the author.
What Is Attributed to Shahrur and Its Evidence
The available evidence describes the passage as follows: “The passage moves on to marriage, redefining it as a binding covenant that goes beyond the financial marriage contract, and affirming that the covenant is the basis of shared human life.” This is not a primary quotation from Shahrur, but a recorded description of the passage. The available full source context establishes only the transition to the heading “Marriage,” without the subsequent paragraph. Therefore, attributing this statement to the author still requires extracting the marriage passage from Muhammad Shahrur: Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence.
Atlas Explanation
Within its limits, the statement helps us read marriage as a relationship framed more broadly than its financial aspect. But by itself, it does not establish a complete technical definition of marriage, nor does it clarify the elements or rulings of this covenant. See also: Women, Family, and Dress.
Qualified Conclusion
If the reported description is confirmed by consulting the original passage, it can be understood as shifting the center of gravity in the presentation of marriage from the financial contract alone to shared life. This is an inference from the wording of the cited evidence, not a conclusion documented by an available text from the author in this package.
Open Question
What is the full text following the heading “Marriage” in the source? Does Shahrur explicitly define marriage in these terms, and what boundaries does he draw for the covenant and its relation to the contract? The evidence presented does not answer this. For the related context in the book’s structure: The Concepts of Honor and Chastity Are Not from the Reference Framework of the Revelation.
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