This axis collects 1 instance of this verse’s use in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.

The verse text as cited

Those are the signs of God

Brief reading

It establishes that natural phenomena are to be read as signs of God and as a field for inquiry and action.

Axes

  • Methodological
  • Faith-based
  • Signs of God: 2
  • Natural phenomena: 1
  • Inquiry: 1

Its place in the network of concepts

It connects belief in the signs with intellectual engagement with them.

The verse’s role in the argument

  • Support: 1

Instances of use

  • The Book and the Qur’an, p. 58: He cites it to establish that natural phenomena are called the signs of God, and that they are a field for inquiry and disposition, not a field of preserved fixity.
    • Concept: Signs of God
    • Function of the verse here: Support
    • Textual evidence: «{تِلْكَ آيَاتُ اللهِ} (الجاثية ٦)»

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