This axis brings together 2 locations 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 quoted
NOTHING IS LIKE HIM, AND HE IS THE ALL-HEARING, THE ALL-SEEING
Brief reading
Shahrur uses it to establish the denial of anthropomorphism concerning God, and to make transcendence rest on abstracting the conception from the human image.
Axes
- Faith
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Abstraction: 2
- Transcendence: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It is linked to the concept of transcendence as a going beyond resemblance.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Foundation: 1
- Critique of the tradition: 1
Locations of use
- The Qur’an in Contemporary Thought, p. 36: He makes it the basis for denying anthropomorphism of God and for affirming that any human conception does not correspond to His existence.
- Concept: Abstraction
- Function of the verse here: Foundation
- Textual citation: «{… لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ وَهُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْبَصِيرُ} (الشورى 11)»
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 29: He places it among the foundations of the theologians who denied attributes, in order to show how it led them to transcendence and to the negation of any conception of God.
- Concept: Transcendence
- Function of the verse here: Critique of the tradition
- Textual citation: «{ لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ وَهُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْبَصِيرُ } (الشورى ١١).»
- Corresponding traditional reading: The people of transcendence
Related books
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