This axis brings together 1 instance of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Text of the verse as cited
So they went on, until, when they met a boy, he killed him. [Moses] said, “Have you killed a pure soul for no [other] soul? You have certainly done a horrible thing.”
Brief reading
Shahrur invokes it as an example of distinguishing the collective justice represented by Moses from individual justice linked to the authority of knowledge.
Axes
- methodological
Related concepts
- authority of knowledge: 2
- collective justice: 1
- individual justice: 1
Its place in the network of concepts
It serves the methodological distinction between two kinds of justice in the reading.
The role of the verse in the argument
- example: 1
Pages in the atlas that refer to this verse
These links gather the pages that draw on the verse or make it part of the argument within the atlas.
Related structural theses
Places of use
- State and Society, p. 244: He invokes it to clarify the distinction between the collective justice represented by Moses and the individual justice linked to the authority of knowledge.
- Concept: authority of knowledge
- Function of the verse here: example
- Textual evidence: “As for the second case, it comes in verse 74 of the same surah (al-Kahf), … {فَانْطَلَقَا حَتَّى إِذَا لَقِيَا غُلَامًا فَقَتَلْهُ …}”
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