This axis brings together 2 instances of Muhammad Shahrur’s use of this verse in his books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse as it appears
Rather, it is a Glorious Qur’an, in a Preserved Tablet
Brief reading
The two verses are taken as the basis for the fixed part of the Qur’an and what is connected to the general, immutable laws.
Axes
- methodological
- linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- the Preserved Tablet: 3
Its place in the network of concepts
It enters into the conceptual network that distinguishes between the fixed and the analogous.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Establishing: 2
Instances of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 58: he makes it the basis for the fixed part of the Qur’an, which represents the general laws that cannot be changed, nor can prayer alter them.
- concept: the Preserved Tablet
- role of the verse here: establishing
- textual citation: «{.. a Glorious Qur’an * in a Preserved Tablet} (al-Buruj 21-22)»
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 13: he uses it to argue that, for him, the analogous is linked to the Preserved Tablet, and thus includes cosmological matters and God’s attributes, not practical legislation.
- concept: the Preserved Tablet
- role of the verse here: establishing
- textual citation: «And the analogous is every verse about cosmological matters and God’s attributes (came from the Preserved Tablet) {Rather, it is a Glorious Qur’an (21) in a Preserved Tablet} (al-Buruj 21, 22)»
Related books
This page is presented within the general method of building the atlas.