This locus gathers 1 instance of Muhammad Shahrur’s use of this verse in his books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Verse text as cited
{Indeed, Pharaoh exalted himself in the land and made its people into factions}
Brief reading
Pharaoh is cited here as an example showing that despotism rests on fragmenting society into contending sects.
Axes
- Political and social
- Narrative and historical
Related concepts
- Differentiation and sectarianization: 2
- Despotism: 1
- Sects: 1
Its place in the network of concepts
It is connected to the concept of social division as an instrument of domination.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Example: 1
Places of use
- Drying up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 109: Pharaoh is cited as an example that despotism can only exist by fragmenting society into contending sects.
- Concept: differentiation and sectarianization
- Function of the verse here: example
- Textual evidence: “And look with me, if you wish, at how Pharaoh could not exalt himself in the land through tyranny and despotism except when he made its people into sects: {Indeed, Pharaoh … and made its people into factions} (al-Qasas 4)”
Related books
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