This hub gathers 1 locus of use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.

The verse as quoted

so she conceived him, and then withdrew with him to a far place

Brief reading

Shahrur cites it as an example of the sequencing of stages of generation, making pregnancy an independent stage between fertilization and delivery.

Axes

  • Faith-based
  • Linguistic and semantic
  • Pregnancy: 2

Its place in the network of concepts

It enters into the construction of a semantic sequence of the stages of creation and birth.

The verse’s role in the argument

  • Example: 1

Instances of use

  • Islam and Faith, p. 180: He places it within the order of generative stages so as to make pregnancy an independent stage that follows fertilization and precedes delivery.
    • Concept: pregnancy
    • Function of the verse here: example
    • Textual evidence: «{فَحَمَلْتُهْ فَانْتَبَدَّتْ بِهِ مَكَانًا قَصِيرًا} (Maryam 22).»

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