This axis collects one place where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Verse text as cited
Are you building on every elevation a monument, amusing yourselves?
Brief reading
He uses it to connect the building of the people of Hud on the highlands with an attempt to escape the earlier flood.
Axes
- Narrative and historical
- Political and social
Related concepts
- Urbanization on hills: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It is connected to urbanization on hills as an image of futile human planning.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Example: 1
Places of use
- The Qur’anic Narrative vol. 2, p. 51: He cites it to link the building of the people of Hud on the highlands with an attempt to escape the earlier flood, and to regard that as futile.
- Concept: urbanization on hills
- Function of the verse here: example
- Textual witness: «as indicated by His saying تعالى {أَتَبْنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ آيةً تَعْبَثُونَ} (al-Shu’ara 128)»
Related books
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