This locus brings together 1 place where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, along with the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
And how many a city was stronger in power than your city that drove you out
Brief reading
He uses it to connect the Messenger’s migration from Mecca with a departure from a monolithic, hostile society into the plural space of Medina.
Axes
- Political and social
- Narrative and historical
Related concepts
- Migration: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It deploys migration as a social and historical transition.
Role of the verse in the argument
- Example: 1
Places of use
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, pp. 129-130: he uses it to connect the Messenger’s migration from Mecca with a departure from a monolithic, hostile society into the plural space of Medina.
- Concept: Migration
- Function of the verse here: Example
- Textual evidence: «{ وَكَأَيَّنْ مِنْ قَرْيَةٍ هِيَ أَشَدُّ قُوَّةً مِنْ قَرْيَتِكَ الَّتِي أَخْرَجْتُكَ … } (Muhammad 13),»
Related books
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