Intended Meaning
The passage states that understanding religion and legislation is only valid through the triad of being, process, and becoming. This triad is presented as a methodological framework that links existence, movement, and transformation. It also prepares for reading religion in relation to the cosmos, history, and the text.
The Atom’s Structure in the Atlas
- Type of argument: methodological
- Argument movement: it builds an understanding of religion and legislation on the triad of being, process, and becoming.
- Key terms: being, process, becoming, legislation.
- Degree of centrality: foundational.
It sets out a general interpretive framework that links existence with movement and transformation, and makes reading the text and religion connected to the structure of change in the cosmos and history.
Reading Aids
- Muhammad Shahrur: Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence
- the contemporary reading method
- being
- process
- becoming
Basis
- Supporting text: «The passage offers a theoretical preface based on the idea that understanding religion and legislation is only valid through the triad: being, process, becoming».
Documentation Level
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom rests on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Limits of the reading: the formulation above is an analytical summary, and is not treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is transmitted as text.
Its Function in the Book
Its function here is definitional; it fixes a meaning or conceptual distinction on which Shahrur relies in building the idea.
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Editorial Note
This is a foundational methodological atom; it does not explain a specific issue but rather offers a comprehensive reading tool.