This axis gathers 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 quoted
O People of the Book, there has come to you Our Messenger, clarifying for you much of what you used to conceal of the Book …
Brief reading
Shahrur uses it within his conception of the clear Book as that which is unveiled and clarified from existence and events, not as a text detached from its context.
Axes
- Methodological
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- The clear Book: 2
- The Book: 2
- Revelation: 1
- Clarification: 1
Its place in the network of concepts
It is linked to the concept of the Book as a field of clarification and disclosure.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Support: 2
Uses
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 58: He includes it among the verses by which he calls natural phenomena and particular events “a clear Book.”
- Concept: the clear Book
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «{.. there has come to you from God a light and a clear Book} (al-Ma’idah 15)»
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 384: He interprets it to mean that the Messenger clarifies and discloses what had been concealed from the rulings of the previous Book, not that he establishes a law independent of it.
- Concept: the Book
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «- {O People of the Book, there has come to you Our Messenger, clarifying for you much of what you used to conceal of the Book …} (al-Ma’idah 15).»
Related books
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