This section gathers the atoms extracted from the book.
- The verse of al-Tawba 29 regulates the status of non-Muslims
- The Sword Verse within the conflict of the covenant
- The Sword Verse is linked to the balance of power
- The impact of colonialism and war
- Arkoun’s critical tools
- Arkoun between two cultures
- Arkoun and understanding applied Islamology
- Arkoun studies human rights
- Arkoun bets on a European reading
- European names that influenced his vision
- Principles of jurisprudence were reclaimed ideologically
- Most interpretations fall into a historical fallacy
- One Thousand and One Nights is a model of the wondrous and enchanting
- Reforming women’s status runs up against tradition
- The restoration of slavery after the French Revolution
- The exclusion of linguistic and cultural plurality
- The Qur’an’s humanity and its human dimension
- Neglecting imagination and memory
- Arkoun’s independence from dualism
- The exhaustion of ijtihad stops generativity
- Literature contributes to shaping the collective imaginary
- Fundamentalists use religion politically
- The bedouins are a social category within the tribal system
- Humanism in Islamic thought
- The Qur’anic episteme is a network of meanings
- The historical epistememe
- Consensus and analogical reasoning in Arkoun
- Qur’anic Islam is submission to God
- Islam knew an early intellectual dynamism
- Islam did not experience political modernity
- Islam and the anthropology of religion
- Orientalism benefited scholarly inquiry
- Colonial Orientalism raises an epistemological problem
- Orientalism marginalizes the wondrous and the literary
- The interpretive rupture has wide-reaching effects
- The scholar-thinker combines spirit and history
- Research begins with what is unbearable
- The enchanting wondrous is an anthropological phenomenon
- The enchanting wondrous permeates the collective imaginary
- Reflective critical history
- Critical history revisits the Renaissance
- Epistemological periodization reads systems of thought
- Civilizational mummification is linked to a later stage
- The turn to Ibn Miskawayh as a subject
- Research backwardness and cultural ruptures
- Oral teaching weakens critical reason
- The humanist formation of Islam is a research trajectory
- The humanist formation of Islam
- Spiritual Sufism differs from the Sufi orders
- Early Sufism was freer and less codified
- Critical cooperation among religious intellectuals
- Colonial education obscured historical understanding
- Education is an epistemic transformation, not a rupture
- Qur’anic exegesis declined after the thirteenth century
- Qur’anic exegesis was once creative
- Double deconstruction is a method for studying the founder
- Distinguishing between ideas and the episteme
- Distinguishing between science and the sciences
- Repentance means submission or killing
- Oral culture shapes the collective imaginary
- The French Revolution between admiration and revulsion
- Stagnation appeared with the guardians of faith
- Stagnation reinforces fundamentalism and Salafism
- The need for a new universal ethics
- Modernity is not merely temporal contemporaneity
- The Qur’anic stories are symbolic narratives
- Christian-Muslim dialogue is a recurring axis
- Dialogue with preachers is almost impossible
- Qur’anic discourse is analyzed linguistically and semiotically
- The Prophetic discourse is a space for dialogue
- Fear of violating taboos
- External studies neglect epistemic structures
- Oppressed memories are an example of the unbearable
- Kabyle collective memory
- A direct return to the Qur’an is practically receding
- Power freezes the intellectual field
- The sura proclaims a new law
- The symbolic figure transcends the historical person
- The new legitimacy after the Prophet’s death
- Sufism is taught orally
- Nature as an object of Kabyle sacralization
- Ritual produces legitimacy
- The wondrous participates in understanding religious symbols
- Lexical Arabic is detached from contemporaneity
- Reason has multiple uses
- Extreme rationalism eliminates imagination
- Knowledge in the Qur’an is revealed knowledge
- Traditional scholars are intermediaries and guardians
- Great scholars build faith
- Secularization does not end the crisis of legitimacy
- The sciences and reason are linked to a later development
- Violence is a general human phenomenon
- Violence appears in different religions
- Al-Ghazali adheres to Qur’anic knowledge
- Modern fatwas and the legitimacy of contemporaneity
- Atrocity did not die with the triumph of the Enlightenment
- Jurisprudence instrumentalized the text for war and jihad
- Early jurisprudence was a cover for tribal reality
- The tribes are an example of diversity
- The Qur’an establishes a new religious solidarity
- The Qur’an carries a political dimension
- The Qur’an is lived ritually through recitation
- Reading dismantles the ideological fortress
- The Qur’anic stories carry a semantic coherence
- Universality is an open project
- The founder becomes a symbol through memory
- What continues later is repetition
- The historical lexicon for understanding the Qur’an
- The thought and the unthought
- Arkoun’s Kabyle upbringing
- The text shifted to closed sacralization
- Texts are understood historically and spatially
- Modern criticism is necessary for late thought
- Revelation responds to the needs of the community
- Wahhabism is a freezing of Hanbali doctrine
- Arkoun’s interest in Islam and Europe
- The persistence of tribal solidarity in Arab power
- The influence of the French milieu on his formation
- School history in France was apologetic
- The transformation of Jesus’ words into text
- The transformation of human judgments into the sacred
- The meaning of Islam changed historically
- Al-Shafi’i’s ordering of the sources of legal inference
- The formation of transcendental time
- The historical formation of the concept of God
- Multiplicity of agents in the Qur’an
- Variation in visits to places of worship
- Deconstructing Qur’anic reason
- Distinguishing faith from belief
- Expanding people’s relations
- The Qur’an’s appeal appears in recitation
- The grouping of the stories in the Cave is deliberate
- The limits of reason are historical
- The multiple lives of the Qur’an
- Confusing the Sharia with jurisprudence
- Studying the system of Islamic knowledge
- The motivations of the first dissertation
- The role of childbirth in women’s status
- Clerics are guardians of belief
- The village’s positive reactions
- The terror of revolution and bloody violence
- Rejecting the homogeneous image of the country
- Sura al-Tawba as a historical turning point
- Sura al-Tawba as a decisive turning point
- Sura al-Tawba is linked to the historical context
- The father’s moral rigor
- The absence of women and music in the mosque
- The absence of assimilation of Roman law
- The efficacy of juridical discourse comes from divine presence
- Imposing Arabic as the sole language
- Separating religion from the state liberates legitimacy
- Childhood curiosity toward Jews
- Foucault changed his analytical method
- Arkoun’s works list
- Reading the Qur’an requires its historical context
- Reading the Qur’an requires an anthropological method
- Reading the Qur’an as a historical-linguistic reading
- Suppression of creativity continued after independence
- The first phase of openness
- The phase of doctrinal closure
- Mecca before Islam
- From oral to written: a productive transformation
- Arkoun’s mission was historical, not religious
- Women of the family as social symbols
- The text of the Qadiriyya creed is an example of freezing
- Arkoun’s critique does not negate the Qur’an
- Critique of Orientalism and superficial reading
- Critique of inherited traditional exegesis
- Critiquing Islamic reason is not a critique of religion
- Critique of Islamic Reason
- Critique of Western reason
- The lack of artistic creativity in Islamic civilization
- The dominance of Maliki law closes ijtihad