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
Related concepts
- 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
Related books
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