This locus gathers 4 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
For if they are more than that, then they are partners in one-third
Brief reading
Shahrur reads the verse within the order of rights in inheritance, and takes it as evidence that division comes after the bequest and the debt.
Loci
- Legal
- Linguistic and semantic
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Partnership: 2
- Inheritance: 2
- Order among rights: 2
- Kalala: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It is connected to the concept of partnership in property and to the structure of inheritance as an order, not merely a division.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 2
- Establishment: 1
- Context: 1
Places of use
- Islam and Faith, p. 53: He cites it for the linguistic meaning of partnership to support his interpretation of “mushrik” as a partner in relationship or property, not only in creed.
- Concept: partnership
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «{… For if they are more than that, then they are partners in one-third…} (al-Nisa 12).»
- The Qur’an in Contemporary Thought, pp. 30-31: He uses it to highlight that the division of inheritance is also conditioned by the bequest and the debt, and that it is not confined to the inherited juristic form.
- Concept: inheritance
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «- {And for you half of what your wives leave… after a bequest they make or a debt} (al-Nisa 12)»
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 179: He uses it to argue that the wife’s share is taken from the net estate after the bequest or debt, not before that.
- Concept: order among rights
- Function of the verse here: establishment
- Textual evidence: «And he said: { … then for them one-eighth of what you leave after a bequest you make or a debt } (al-Nisa 12)»
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 210: He mentions it as background for distinguishing between the first kalala and the second kalala, without quoting its text here.
- Concept: kalala
- Function of the verse here: context
- Textual evidence: «After He – سبحانه – clarified the shares of the heirs in the case of the first kalala with the presence of the spouse (female or male) in the verse (al-Nisa 12)»
Related books
This page is presented within the general methodology of building the atlas.