This axis gathers 4 instances of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
مَا نَنْسَخْ مِنْ آيَةٍ أَوْ نُنْسِهَا نَأْتِ بِخَيْرٍ مِنْهَا أَوْ مِثْلِهَا …
Brief reading
The verse is used to establish an understanding of abrogation as a transition between laws, not within the Qur’an itself.
Axes
- Methodological
- Legislative
Related concepts
- Abrogation: 5
Its place in the network of concepts
It is linked to resetting the concept of abrogation within the movement of the revelations.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Foundational: 3
- Critique of heritage: 1
Instances of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 384: He makes it the theoretical basis for understanding abrogation as replacement or causing oblivion, tied to the development of legislation between revelations.
- Concept: abrogation
- Function of the verse here: Foundational
- Textual citation: «- {مَا نَنْسَخُ مِنْ آيَةٍ أَوْ نُنْسِهَا نَأْتِ بِخَيْرٍ مِنْهَا أَوْ مِثْلِهَا …} (البقرة ١٠٦).»
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 51: He accepts the existence of abrogation, but restricts it to the interval between laws and revelations, not within a single revelation.
- Concept: abrogation
- Function of the verse here: Foundational
- Textual citation: «{مَا نَنْسَخْ مِنْ آيةٍ أَوْ نَنْسِهَا نَأْتِ بِخَيْرٍ مِنْهَا …} (البقرة ١٠٦)»
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 90: He restricts abrogation to the transition between laws, and denies the existence of abrogating and abrogated verses within the Qur’an itself as commonly held in the tradition.
- Concept: abrogation
- Function of the verse here: Critique of heritage
- Textual citation: «ليس ثمة ناسخ ومنسوخ بين دفتي المصحف الشريف… أما مصداقية قوله – تعالى –: { مَا نَنْسَخُ مِنْ آيَةٍ أَوْ نُنْسِهَا … } (البقرة ١٠٦)، فتظهر في النسخ بين الشرائع.»
- Counter-traditional reading: abrogation within the Qur’an, between verses of the muṣḥaf
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 109: He redirects abrogation to mean between divine laws, not within the Qur’an itself, and makes the verse evidence for this transition.
- Concept: abrogation
- Function of the verse here: Foundational
- Textual citation: «هذا ما نفهمه من قوله – تعالى –: { مَا نَسْخَ مِنْ آيَةٍ أَوْ نُنْسِهَا نَأْتِ بِخَيْرٍ مِنْهَا أَوْ مِثْلِهَا } (البقرة ١٠٦)»
- Counter-traditional reading: abrogation within the Qur’an
Related books
- The Book and the Qur’an
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence
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