This axis brings together 2 places 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
Have you come to turn us away from what we found our fathers following?
Brief reading
In Shahrur’s work, the verse is used to criticize resistance to renewal under the pretext of preserving the fathers’ legacy, and to expose the tendency toward rigid imitation.
Axes
- Political and social
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Rejection of renewal: 2
- Paternalism: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It is linked to paternalism as an obstacle to change.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Critique of heritage: 2
Places of use
- Islam and Human Beings: He uses it as an example of the resistance of reformers under the pretext of preserving the fathers’ legacy.
- Concept: Rejection of renewal
- Function of the verse here: Critique of heritage
- Textual evidence: «{ They said, Have you come to turn us away from what we found our fathers following … } (Jonah 78)»
- State and Society, p. 152: He cites it to embody the refusal of imitators of any change under the pretext of preserving the fathers’ legacy.
- Concept: Paternalism
- Function of the verse here: Critique of heritage
- Textual evidence: «{They said, Have you come to turn us away from what we found our fathers following…} (Jonah 78).»
Related books
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