This axis brings together 2 places 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 cited
And God sets forth an example for those who believe: the wife of Pharaoh…
Brief reading
The verse is used to broaden the meaning of believers and to establish that a woman’s value before God rests on faith and action.
Axes
- Faith-based
- Human and ethical
Related concepts
- Faith: 2
- Equality: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It is linked to the principle of equality in spiritual value.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Support: 2
Places of use
- Islam and Faith, p. 220: Cites it to affirm that the term believers is general and not restricted to the followers of Muhammad, but includes earlier exemplars such as Asiya, Pharaoh’s wife.
- Concept: Faith
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: “If we do not take the first matter into account, then there is no longer any meaning to His saying, Exalted be He: {And God sets forth an example for those who believe: the wife of Pharaoh…} (Prohibition 11).”
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 281: Uses it to argue that a woman’s value before God is not tied to masculinity and femininity, but to faith and action.
- Concept: Equality
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: “{ And God sets forth an example for those who believe: the wife of Pharaoh } (Prohibition 11)”
Related books
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