This axis brings together 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 as cited
And your mothers who nursed you…
Brief reading
Shahrur takes the verse as a basis for building the circle of unmarriageable kin and defining the limits of prohibition in marriage and the family relationship.
Axes
- Legislative
- Political and social
- Human and ethical
Related concepts
- Unmarriageable kin: 2
- Prohibition: 2
- Circle of unmarriageable kin: 2
- Marriage prohibitions: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It is linked to the expansion of the circle of unmarriageable kin as an organized social path.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Foundation: 3
- Example: 1
Places of use
- Islam and Faith, p. 207: He makes it the basis for considering the wet nurse a mother who enters the circle of unmarriageable kin, while her effect remains in filial piety and inheritance according to the condition of awareness and separation.
- Concept: Unmarriageable kin
- Function of the verse here: Foundation
- Textual evidence: «{… وَأَمْهَاتُكُمْ اللَّاتِي أَرْضَعْنَكُمْ…} (al-Nisa 23)»
- Islam and Faith, p. 208: He uses it to prove that the prohibition here is absolute and includes fertilization together with marriage, not marriage alone.
- Concept: Prohibition
- Function of the verse here: Foundation
- Textual evidence: «{Forbidden to you are your mothers… the verse} (al-Nisa 23)»
- State and Society, pp. 47-50: He takes it as the basis for his theory of family development and the expansion of the circle of unmarriageable kin as a movement toward civilization, not the reverse.
- Concept: Circle of unmarriageable kin
- Function of the verse here: Foundation
- Textual evidence: «- {Forbidden to you are your mothers, your daughters, your sisters … and that you combine between two sisters, except what has already passed. Indeed, God is Forgiving, Merciful} (al-Nisa 23).»
- Counter-traditional reading: In the tradition, this is known as a fixed, final list of prohibitions, whereas he makes it the minimum limit, expandable by prevention rather than by prohibition.
- Towards New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 153: He counts it as one of the prohibited matters that he sees within the overall structure of prohibitions in the Revelation.
- Concept: Marriage prohibitions
- Function of the verse here: Example
- Textual evidence: «And as for the tenth, it is the marriage prohibitions in His saying – تعالى –: { Forbidden to you are your mothers … }»
Related books
This page is presented within the general methodology of atlas construction.