This axis brings together 1 location 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 cited
In it is a flowing spring.
Brief reading
In Shahrur’s reading, the verse comes to define the meaning of the root as flow and movement, not as denoting a slave or servitude.
Axes
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- الجارية: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It is connected to the field of semantic differentiation that frees the word from its common meaning.
Its role in the argument
- Distinction: 1
Instances of use
- State and Society, p. 263: He cites it to affirm that the root denotes flow and movement, not the meaning of a slave or servitude.
- Concept: flowing
- Function of the verse here: Distinction
- Textual evidence: «And {فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ} (Al-Ghashiyah 12), where the word in the first verse refers to Noah’s ark, while the second describes a spring in Paradise»
- The corresponding traditional reading: al-jāriya meaning a maidservant or slave
Related books
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