This axis brings together 4 instances 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
O you who have believed, let not a people ridicule another people … and do not call each other by offensive nicknames …
Brief reading
For Shahrur, the verse comes to establish social etiquette that forbids ridicule and disparagement, and to begin defining the people as a rational collective.
Axes
- Humanistic and ethical
- Political and social
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Mockery: 2
- Humiliation: 2
- Social etiquette: 2
- The people: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It is connected to the ethics of interaction and to constructing the concept of the people in the social sphere.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 2
- Critique of the heritage: 1
- Foundation: 1
Instances of use
- Islam and Humanity: He makes it an example of general ethics that regulate social relations and prevent ridicule and name-calling.
- Concept: Mockery
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual citation: «He said, the Exalted: { O you who have believed, let not a people ridicule another people … } (Al-Hujurat 11)»
- Islam and Faith, p. 42: He cites it to affirm that mockery and disparagement are moral laws whose application varies according to social context.
- Concept: Humiliation
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual citation: «From Surat al-Hujurat, the prohibition of mockery, disparagement, and name-calling …»
- Islam and Faith, p. 42: He employs it to state that mockery and disparagement are forbidden as psychological harm and reputational damage, then opens the door to legislative ijtihad to regulate exceptions.
- Concept: Social etiquette
- Function of the verse here: Critique of the heritage
- Textual citation: «From Surat al-Hujurat, the prohibition of mockery, disparagement, and name-calling»
- The State and Society, p. 61: From it he begins to define the people as a rational collective linked by a shared language, not merely by lineage or number.
- Concept: The people
- Function of the verse here: Foundation
- Textual citation: «And this meaning appears in the Exalted’s saying: { O you who have believed, let not a people ridicule another people … } (Al-Hujurat 11),»
Related books
This page is presented within the general methodology of atlas construction.