Quraysh’s tongue appears in Shahrur as the tongue in which the text was revealed, and as an indication of the unity of the written original in contrast to later oral or historical multiplicities.
This entry belongs to the Shahrur lexicon.
Meaning in Shahrur’s view
Quraysh’s tongue is not a purely linguistic detail. It is part of Shahrur’s argument for the stability of the text and the unity of its origin, and for rejecting the notion that the readings or the report of the seven letters constitute evidence of textual plurality in the revelation. The entry therefore connects to the rejection of synonymy and to the construction of Arabic as a language that fixes meaning rather than a field of free substitution.
Its function in interpretation
- It links the language of revelation to the unity of the text.
- It distinguishes between the written original and oral circulation.
- It places the readings and the seven letters within the history of reception, not within a plurality in the origin of revelation.
- It supports a semantic project that does not equate words with one another and does not open the door to substitution in the name of synonymy.
Foundational links
- The revelation occurred in the Quraysh dialect
- The Qurayshite tongue and the unity of the text support a non-synonymic linguistic-cognitive project
Limits of the reading
This entry does not settle all questions in the history of the readings, but it clarifies their place in Shahrur’s view: a question in the history of transmission and reception, not evidence of plurality in the origin of revelation.