This axis gathers 1 instance of this verse’s use in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse as cited
And do not marry those whom your fathers married …
Brief reading
Shahrur uses it as an example of the expansion of the Muhammadan message in the sphere of prohibited degrees of marriage, compared with what existed in the law of Moses before it.
Axes
- Legislative
- Linguistic and semantic
Associated concepts
- Prohibited degrees of marriage: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It functions as an example of the development of legislative meaning in legal rulings.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Example: 1
Instances of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 396: He uses it to prove that the Muhammadan message expanded the circle of prohibited degrees of marriage compared with the law of Moses, making that better than what came before.
- Concept: prohibited degrees of marriage
- Function of the verse here: example
- Textual evidence: «It added new prohibited degrees in marriage … {And do not marry those whom your fathers married …} (al-Nisāʾ (24–22)»
Related books
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