This axis gathers 1 instance of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
{Have you not considered your Lord: how He spread out the shadow … then We seized it back to Us with an easy seizure}
Brief reading
The verses come as an example of an interpretation that reads shadow and light as a semantic relation with a physical dimension.
Axes
- Linguistic and semantic
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Shadow and light: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It is connected to a tendency in reading to transform the Qur’anic image into a model of explanation.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Example: 1
Instances of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 179: He uses it as a model for a physical interpretation, in which he says that shadow has an independent existence and light only indicates it.
- Concept: Shadow and light
- Function of the verse here: Example
- Textual evidence: «An example of this is the saying of God تعالى {Have you not considered your Lord: how He spread out the shadow …}»
Related books
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