This axis brings together two 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
And recite to them the story of Adam’s two sons in truth, when each offered a sacrifice …
Brief reading
Shahrur makes it an example of primitive material worship, in which the meaning of piety is embodied through sacrifice.
Axes
- Narrative and historical
- Human and ethical
Related concepts
- sacrifice: 2
- worship: 1
- piety: 1
- Children of Adam: 1
- humanization: 1
- Adam: 1
Its place in the network of concepts
It links sacrifice with the beginnings of human devotion.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Example: 1
- Distinction: 1
Places of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, pp. 268-269: He makes it an example of primitive material worship and of the embodiment of piety in the sacrifice accepted sensibly.
- Concept: sacrifice
- Function of the verse here: Example
- Textual evidence: «And in this God said: {And recite to them the story of Adam’s two sons … when each offered a sacrifice …}»
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 268: He interprets Adam’s two sons here as not Adam’s biological sons, but as human beings after humanization, that is, the children of Adam in the civilizational sense.
- Concept: Children of Adam
- Function of the verse here: Distinction
- Textual evidence: «He, exalted be He, confirmed that this incident took place after Adam by His saying: {And recite to them the story of Adam’s two sons in truth…}»
- Corresponding traditional reading: it does not mean Adam’s direct sons from his loins
Related books
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