This axis brings together 1 instance of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Text of the verse as cited
Indeed, nasīʾ is an increase in disbelief
Reader’s answer
Question
How does Muhammad Shahrur employ the Qur’anic statement, “Indeed, nasīʾ is an increase in disbelief,” in his interpretation of the term “women”?
Shahrur employs the verse linguistically: he regards “nasīʾ” as signifying delay and postponement, then builds on this to argue that “women” means those created later than males. This connection is stated explicitly in the cited passage, but it represents Shahrur’s interpretive construction and does not establish that the verse itself speaks about women or about the order in which male and female were created.
Shahrur connects “nasīʾ” in Repentance 37 with the meaning of delay and postponement, making it the basis for deriving the meaning of “women.” From this connection, Shahrur concludes that women are “created later than males.”
Citation and location
State and Society — p. 180.
Limits of the reading
- The passage on p. 180 states Shahrur’s method and conclusion, but it does not provide independent proof for the linguistic derivation he assumes between “women” and “nasīʾ.”
- This passage does not establish that Repentance 37 itself speaks about women or about the creation of the female after the male; women are mentioned in the context of Shahrur’s subsequent inference, not in the quoted text of the verse.
- The lexical commonality or similarity between “nasīʾ” and “women” should not be turned into an established semantic relation without independent linguistic proof, which is not available within this passage.
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Brief reading
He uses it to connect the meaning of delay in nasīʾ with the meaning of women as those created later.
Axes
- Linguistic and semantic
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Linguistic root: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It shows how his argument is constructed on the basis of the linguistic root.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 1
Usage locations
- State and Society, p. 180: He cites it linguistically to connect the meaning of delay in “nasīʾ” with the meaning of “women” as those created later.
- Concept: linguistic root
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual citation: “Noting that the sole root from which the word ‘women’ is derived is the verb ‘nasiya’ … as it is used in His saying: {Indeed, nasīʾ is an increase in disbelief} (Repentance 37)”
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