This axis gathers 2 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 it appears

So whoever undertakes the pilgrimage in them

Brief reading

Shahrur uses it to distinguish between God’s request for pilgrimage and the pilgrim’s commitment to it, and to define the months of pilgrimage as well-known months.

Axes

  • Legislative
  • Linguistic and semantic
  • Pilgrimage: 2
  • the well-known months: 2

Its place in the conceptual network

It enters into the network governing the timing of worship and the formulation of commitment to it.

The role of the verse in the argument

  • Distinction: 1
  • Foundation: 1

Instances of use

  • Islam and Faith, p. 49: He distinguishes between God’s request for pilgrimage and the pilgrim’s statement “I have made pilgrimage obligatory,” meaning that he committed himself to it on his own after having the means.
    • Concept: pilgrimage
    • Function of the verse here: distinction
    • Textual evidence: «{… So whoever undertakes the pilgrimage in them, there shall be no indecency, no immorality, and no disputing during the pilgrimage…} (al-Baqarah 197).»
  • Islam and Faith, p. 84: From it he derives that pilgrimage has well-known months, which he links to the sacred months known among the Arabs.
    • Concept: the well-known months
    • Function of the verse here: foundation
    • Textual evidence: «- {Pilgrimage is [during] well-known months…} (al-Baqarah 197),»

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