This axis gathers 1 location for the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse as cited
{إِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ الْفَاحِشَةَ}
Brief reading
The verse establishes a historical understanding that the first prohibition of obscenity was related to same-sex intercourse.
Axes
- Legislative
- Narrative and historical
Related concepts
- Obscenity: 2
- Same-sex intercourse: 1
- Adultery: 1
- Prohibition: 1
Its place in the network of concepts
It enters into the ordering of the history of prohibition, rather than gathering all forms at once.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Establishing: 1
Places of use
- State and Society, p. 49: makes it evidence that the first prohibition of obscenity in the course of history was related to same-sex intercourse, not to all forms of adultery at once.
- Concept: obscenity
- Function of the verse here: establishing
- Textual witness: «The Qur’anic narrative tells us that the first thing God prohibited among obscenities, after the completion of the first family, is same-sex intercourse. As stated on Lot’s tongue: {إِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ الْفَاحِشَةَ} (Al-‘Ankabut 28)»
Related books
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