This axis brings together 2 places 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
Leave Me with whoever denies this discourse
Brief reading
The verse is used to support the idea that the Qur’an is a discourse that can be believed or denied, and that it is a report with implications for existence and history.
Axes
- Faith-related
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- discourse: 2
- belief in the discourse: 2
- denial: 1
- report: 1
Its place in the network of concepts
It enters the network of discourse as a divine address open to reception and scrutiny.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 2
Instances of use
- The Qur’anic Narrative, vol. 2, p. 8: He uses it to affirm that the Qur’an called itself a discourse and threatened those who deny it.
- Concept: discourse
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual citation: «And He undertook to account for them in His saying تعالى { Leave Me with whoever denies this discourse… } (al-Qalam 44)»
- A Guide to the Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation, p. 34: He cites it to emphasize that the Qur’anic discourse can be believed or denied as a report about existence and history.
- Concept: belief in the discourse
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual citation: «{ Leave Me with whoever denies this discourse… } (al-Qalam 44).»
Related books
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