This axis gathers 1 place where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse as cited
O you who have believed, when you rise to perform prayer, wash your faces and your hands
Brief reading
The verse is used to critique the inflation of juridical language when it monopolizes the understanding of clear rulings in the Revelation.
Axes
- Methodological
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Language and jurisprudence: 2
- Understanding rulings: 1
- Juridical language: 1
Its place in the conceptual network
It is connected to his method of distinguishing linguistic understanding from juridical immersion.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Critique of the tradition: 1
Instances of use
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 94: He uses it to show that inflated juridical language should not monopolize the understanding of clear rulings in the Revelation.
- Concept: Language and jurisprudence
- Function of the verse here: Critique of the tradition
- Textual evidence: «And that His – تعالى – saying: { O you who have believed, when you rise to prayer, wash your faces and your hands } (al-Ma’ida 6) can only be unraveled by one who has memorized al-Shāfiya, al-Kāfiya, and Ibn Mālik’s Alfiyya?»
Related books
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