The Unifying Idea
This axis brings together the triad of being, becoming, and transformation, the critique of historical jurisprudence, and the call to re-found jurisprudence. It places the fixity of the text against the historicity of understanding.
Theses Included in the Axis
- Understanding religion and legislation rests on the triad of being, becoming, and transformation
- Existence can be understood only through the inseparability of being, becoming, and transformation
- Historical Islam is a historically conditioned understanding
- Jurisprudence needs to be re-founded
The Axis’s Supporting Atoms
- The triad of being, becoming, and transformation
- The Qur’anic text is fixed, while understanding changes
- The world needs transformation
- Historical Islam is a conditioned understanding
- Inherited jurisprudence is a historical understanding
- The Qur’anic text is fixed, while understanding changes
Reading Method
This page is understood as an attempt to found a jurisprudence that revisits the inherited tradition from within its own history. The criterion is not the rejection of the old, but the distinction between what is a fixed text and what is a historical understanding.