This hub brings together 1 place where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Verse text as cited
And We did not send before you except men to whom We revealed from among the people of the towns. Have they not traveled through the land and seen how was the end of those before them? And the home of the Hereafter is better for those who are conscious. Will you not then reason?
Brief reading
Shahrur employs it to state that the word “men” here means males, linking this to the era of the towns and its male dominance.
Themes
- Political and social
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Male messengers: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It links linguistic meaning with the social structure of the ancient world.
Role of the verse in the argument
- Support: 1
Usage locations
- The State and Society, p. 143: He employs it to say that “men” here means males, and links this to the era of the towns and its male dominance.
- Concept: Male messengers
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: “{And We did not send before you except men to whom We revealed from among the people of the towns…} (Joseph 109)”
Related books
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