This axis gathers 2 instances of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking them to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
So I took a veil apart from them, and We sent Our Spirit to her, and he appeared before her as a well-proportioned human being
Brief reading
The verse is taken as a basis for understanding the veil as a spatial barrier to sight, not a bodily garment.
Axes
- Linguistic and semantic
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Veil: 3
- Spatial barrier: 1
- Sight: 1
Its place in the conceptual network
It enters into constructing the linguistic meaning of the veil and distinguishing it from common usage.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Foundational: 2
Instances of use
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 294: It makes it an example of how the veil in the Revelation, in his view, is a spatial barrier to sight, not a garment.
- Concept: Veil
- Function of the verse here: Foundational
- Textual evidence: “As he — Exalted is He — said about Mary: {فَاتَّخَذْتُ مِنْ دُونِهِمْ حِجَابًا …} (Maryam 17).”
- Guide to the Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation, p. 65: It makes the veil a spatial screen to sight, not a bodily garment.
- Concept: Veil
- Function of the verse here: Foundational
- Textual evidence: “The veil has a purely spatial meaning … as he said about Mary in the Exalted’s saying: { فَاتَّخَذَتْ مِنْ دُونِهِمْ حِجَابًا … } (Maryam 17).”
Related books
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