This axis gathers 1 place where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
AND THERE CAME FROM THE FARTHEST PART OF THE CITY A MAN, HASTENING. HE SAID, “O MY PEOPLE, FOLLOW THE MESSENGERS.”
Brief reading
Shahrur cites it to understand the city as a space in which opposition and plurality of opinions appear.
Axes
- Political and social
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- city: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It falls within the deconstruction of the meaning of the city as an open social field.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Example: 1
Places of use
- The Qur’an in Contemporary Thought, p. 21: Cites it to interpret the city as a space for the presence of declared opposition and multiple opinions.
- Concept: city
- Function of the verse here: Example
- Textual evidence: «{وَجَاءَ مِنْ أَقْصَى الْمَدِينَةِ رَجُلٌ يَسْعَى …} (يس 20)»
Related books
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