Quran-only methodology
The center of the work. The Quran, read on its own terms, is sufficient — and the canonical hadith corpus represents a later sedimentation of political and theological interests.
The argument is not that hadith is fabricated, or that early Muslims were dishonest. It is an argument about epistemology: what carries the authority of revelation, and what carries the authority of community. The Quran's self-description as a complete and clear text is read at face value, and the post-prophetic corpus is read as history.
This is the methodology that everything else in Dr. Mansour's work descends from. The reform program, the critique of Salafism, the position on apostasy and Hisbah, the readings of early Islamic political history — they all share this starting point.
The pieces in this theme are the textual core. Start with the books listed below; the article companion pieces re-state the argument from different angles.
“The Quran does not need to be supplemented to be sufficient. Sufficiency is what it claims of itself.”
The Quran & Its Sufficiency · 2003
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