This axis brings together 3 instances of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
And his people came to him, hastening toward him … Is there not among you a sensible man?
Brief reading
The verse is used as an example of the meaning of people in a specifically masculine context, and of an interpretive question about the meaning of the mentioned offer.
Axes
- Narrative and historical
- Linguistic and semantic
- Political and social
Related concepts
- people: 3
- marriage: 2
- deviant behavior: 1
Its place in the conceptual network
It enters the narrative network with the semantic interpretation of certain terms.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 2
- Example: 1
Instances of use
- Islam and Human Beings: He uses it to define people as a group of males in this specific context.
- Concept: people
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual citation: «This meaning appears in the words of God Most High: { وَجَاءَهُ قَوْمُهُ يُهْرَعُونَ إِلَيْهِ … أَلَيْسَ مِنْكُمْ رَجُلٌ رَشِيدٌ } (Hud 78)»
- State and Society, p. 49: He uses it to raise an interpretive question about whether Lot was offering marriage or offering women as an alternative to deviant behavior, in order to prove that some relationships were not yet licentious.
- Concept: marriage
- Function of the verse here: Example
- Textual citation: «As was related on the tongue of Lot in His words—Exalted is He: {وَجَاءَهُ قَوْمُهُ يُهْرَعُونَ إِلَيْهِ … هَـؤُلَاءِ بَنَاتِي هُنَّ أَطْهَرُ لَكُمْ} (Hud 78).»
- State and Society, p. 61: He cites it as evidence that, in his usage, the word people may denote a male group associated with homosexuality in the story of Lot.
- Concept: people
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual citation: «As this meaning appears in His words—Exalted is He: {وَجَاءَهُ قَوْمُهُ يُهْرَعُونَ إِلَيْهِ …} (Hud 78),»
Related books
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