This axis brings together 1 instance 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 quoted
O my two fellow prisoners, are many separate lords better, or Allah, the One, the Prevailing?
Brief reading
Shahrur uses it to infer that the political environment in Egypt was polytheistic, without the Qur’anic text specifying the ruler’s religion itself.
Axes
- Narrative and historical
- Political and social
Related concepts
- Polytheism: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It helps distinguish between political structure and doctrinal description.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Distinction: 1
Instances of use
- The Qur’anic Narrative, vol. 2, p. 180: It is cited as evidence that the political environment in Egypt was polytheistic, without the Qur’anic text specifying the ruler’s religion itself.
- Concept: Polytheism
- Function of the verse here: Distinction
- Textual evidence: «The Wise Revelation indicates that the plurality of lords was prevalent in the city… (see Joseph 39).»
- The corresponding traditional reading: the views of the people of reports and the exegetes that the ruler of Egypt was Muslim, or that the narrative text settles his creed.
Related books
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