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
  • 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),»

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