Reform of Islamic thought
What follows from Quran-only methodology is a reform program — re-examination of fiqh, of the political-religious order, of inherited authority.
Reform here is not modernization in the conventional sense. The argument is that the inherited fiqh is itself the product of a particular history and politics, and that returning to the Quranic text is — paradoxically — the genuinely conservative move.
Specific subjects treated at length: the law of apostasy (its absence from the Quran and its appearance in later jurisprudence), Hisbah (the legal mechanism by which one Muslim can prosecute another for heresy), the moral category of the "sinner Muslim," the relationship between law and conscience.
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