This axis gathers 2 instances of Muhammad Shahrur’s use of this verse in his books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Verse text as cited
AND THE QUR’AN FULL OF DHIKR
Brief reading
He makes it the basis for establishing that dhikr is a quality of the Qur’an, not an independent identity, and that the revealed form is the characterized dhikr.
Axes
- Methodological
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Dhikr: 3
Its place in the conceptual network
It serves his conceptual construction of the relationship between the Qur’an and dhikr within a reading of the text’s linguistic form.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Foundation: 1
- Support: 1
Instances of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 49: Through it, he states that dhikr is a quality of the Qur’an, not an independent identity, and that the Qur’an is the described term while dhikr is the linguistic quality.
- Concept: Dhikr
- Function of the verse here: Foundation
- Textual evidence: «{ص وَالْقُرْآنِ ذِي الذِّكْرِ} (ص ١)»
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 133: He takes it as evidence that the spoken Arabic form that has reached us is the “dhikr” resulting from making and revelation.
- Concept: Dhikr
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: «God, Mighty and Majestic, named it in His decisive revelation as dhikr in His saying: {صُوَالْقُرْآنِ ذِي الذِّكْرِ} (ص ١).»
Related books
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