This axis brings together 1 place where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as it appears
So We sent upon them the flood, locusts, lice, frogs, and blood as detailed signs, but they were arrogant and were a criminal people
Brief reading
He employs it to explain the meaning of detailing as a chronological sequence of separate signs, each distinct from the others.
Axes
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Temporal detailing: 2
- Sequence: 1
- Signs: 1
Its place in the conceptual network
It serves his construction of the meaning of detailing in the arrangement of the signs.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Example: 1
Places of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 103: He employs it to explain the meaning of detailing as a chronological sequence of separate signs, each distinct from the others.
- Concept: temporal detailing
- Function of the verse here: example
- Textual evidence: «… {the flood, locusts, lice, frogs, and blood as detailed signs} … to show that these five signs were detailed signs»
Related books
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