Concept Center: The Qur'an

This page gathers the main paths associated with the concept of “the Qur’an” within the atlas: the shared entry, the glossary, the places where it appears in the books, the verses, the relations, and nearby claims.

Direct answer

Here, the Qur’an is presented through Shahrur’s distinctions between the Book, the Qur’an, and the Mother of the Book, and through a method that begins with the text itself. Its links are connected to interpretation, to matching the Qur’anic report with reality and reason, and to criticizing the use of reasons for revelation as a comprehensive key. The Qur’an also appears as a basis for re-establishing Islam in ethical and human terms.

Concept keys

• The Qur’an explains the Qur’an.
• Qur’anic terms are not synonymous.
• The Book differs from the Qur’an.
• Interpretation rests on matching the Qur’anic report with reality and reason.
• Reasons for revelation are not a comprehensive key to understanding the Qur’an.

Where does the tracing begin?

• The Qur’an
• The Qur’an
• Reasons for revelation are not a comprehensive key to understanding the Qur’an
• Interpretation rests on matching the Qur’anic report with objective reality and reason
• The Qur’an explains the Qur’an

Shared entry

• The Qur’an

Glossary

• The Qur’an

Appearances in the books

• The Qur’an
• The Qur’an
• The Qur’an
• The Qur’an
• The Qur’an
• The Qur’an
• The Qur’an
• The Qur’an

Related verses

• Al-A’raf 144
• Al-Anbiya 10
• Al-Baqara 185
• Al-Jinn 25-28
• Al-Hijr 87
• At-Tur 34
• Al-Qadr 1-5
• Al-Qasas 85
• Al-Kahf 1
• Al-Waqi’ah 81

Conceptual relations

• Reasons for revelation are not a comprehensive key to understanding the Qur’an
• The Mother of the Book is concerned with the commands and prohibitions related to human conduct
• Israeliyyat distort the Qur’anic narratives
• Islam is re-founded in understanding from the Qur’an as a human ethical framework that distinguishes between Islam and faith, separates religion from the authority of prohibition, and makes freedom, citizenship, and righteous action central standards
• Interpretation rests on matching the Qur’anic report with objective reality and reason
• The Wise Revelation is the only fixed revelation, while its understanding is dynamic
• The Muhammadan message rebuilds society, the family, and women on the basis of equality, contract, and criticism of patriarchal customs
• Comprehensive relations
• The Qur’an is concerned with objective laws and existential truths
• The Qur’an establishes pluralism and prevents monism
• The Qur’an confirms some of what is in the previous scriptures
• The Qur’an distinguishes between الأب and الوالد, and between الأم and الوالدة, and between الأبوين and الوالدين
• The Qur’an distinguishes between hearing, sight, and the heart as sources of knowledge
• The Qur’an is consistent with modern science in explaining the origin of humankind
• No legal ruling is derived from Qur’anic narrative
• Qur’anic narrative serves the function of lesson and knowledge, not legislation
• Qur’anic narrative presents an evolutionary, cumulative vision of the formation of human beings and society
• Qur’anic narrative reveals the laws of history
• The Book differs from the Qur’an

Nearby claims

• Qur’anic terms are not synonymous
• Witnessing in the Qur’an has two meanings
• The Qur’an explains the Qur’an
• The heritage should be set aside
• The Qur’anic method and the redefinition of concepts move Islam from identity to values
• Understanding Islam requires beginning from the Qur’an with a sequential method that establishes the distinctness of terms
• The concepts of loyalty, disbelief, and polytheism are reread on a value-based, not identity-based, basis
• Humanistic Islam is re-established Qur’anically as a system of values, freedom, and citizenship that transcends identity
• Fatherhood goes beyond genetic lineage
• Motherhood goes beyond biological birth
• The combat narrative is not a Qur’anic اصل
• Scientific witnessing supports the message
• The Qur’an is a lasting miracle
• The Qur’an distinguishes between family terms
• Shahrur’s reconstruction of Qur’anic concepts makes them epistemic and humanistic
• The family distinctions in the Qur’an redefine fatherhood, motherhood, and adoption
• The distinction between messenger and prophet redefines the limits of authority and revelation
• The Qur’an establishes pluralism and prevents monism
• Monism is a divine attribute, not a human model
• Acts prohibited humanly
• Apostasy is not a Qur’anic ruling
• The Muhammadan message has a threefold purposive structure
• Qur’anic narrative encodes historical laws
• The human governance of the Book transfers legislation to human beings
• The stories of the Qur’an are read as historical laws
• Unseen-claim hadiths are rejected by him
• Hadiths that contradict the Qur’an are rejected
• Qur’anic wisdom is not the prophetic Sunna
• Qur’anic approval is not limited to the Companions
• The contemporary Sunna is read through the Qur’an