This axis brings together 1 location 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

… THAT GOD IS FREE FROM THE POLYTHEISTS, AND SO IS HIS MESSENGER

Brief reading

It makes it a criterion for Qur’anic dissociation, then rejects turning it into an absolute juristic enmity.

Axes

  • Faith-based
  • Political and social
  • dissociation: 2

Its place in the conceptual network

It enters into recalibrating the concept of dissociation within relations of peace and hostility.

The verse’s role in the argument

  • Critique of the tradition: 1

Places of use

  • Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 186: He sets it as a criterion for Qur’anic dissociation, then refuses to project onto it a concept of absolute juristic enmity and hatred.
    • Concept: dissociation
    • Function of the verse here: critique of the tradition
    • Textual witness: «{… THAT GOD IS FREE FROM THE POLYTHEISTS, AND SO IS HIS MESSENGER} (al-Tawba 3).»
    • Corresponding traditional reading: dissociation in the sense of declaring enmity and hatred toward the polytheists

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