This hub gathers 1 instance of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
And do not marry women whom your fathers married … Forbidden to you are your mothers …
Brief reading
Shahrur takes the two verses as establishing a closed minimum threshold in the category of prohibited kinship relations, below which one may not go, while allowing increase through ijtihad.
Axes
- legislative
- methodological
Related concepts
- Minimum threshold for prohibited kinship relations: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It is situated within the construction of a disciplined legislative standard for prohibited kinship.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Foundational: 1
Uses
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 411: He makes the two verses a closed minimum threshold in prohibited kinship relations, below which one may not go, while allowing ijtihad only in expansion.
- Concept: Minimum threshold for prohibited kinship relations
- Function of the verse here: Foundational
- Textual evidence: «The minimum threshold among God’s limits appeared in the verses of prohibited kinship relations, namely: a - {And do not marry women whom your fathers married …} (al-Nisāʾ 22). - {Forbidden to you are your mothers …} (al-Nisāʾ 23).»
Related books
This page is presented within the general methodology of atlas construction.