This page is an analytical map of the episode, not a verbatim transcript. The internal archive contains the transcript and audio for verification and analysis only, and the atlas does not publish them.
The episode’s place within the program
- Stage: Knowledge and Laws
- Episode function: Presenting the theory of knowledge—being, truth, and the words of God—as a dialogic entry point linking concept to books and atoms.
- Number of atoms currently linked: 13
Source data
- Original title in the archive: Program al-Naba’ al-‘Azim with Yahya al-Amir and his guest Dr. Muhammad Shahrur, Episode 7 “Theory of Knowledge, and Being [as] the Words of God”
- Internal transcript: Available, unpublished.
- Internal audio: Available, unpublished.
- YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxMump2hbGs
Nearby concepts
Connections to books
Extracted atoms
- Abstraction is the basis of human thought
- Tasbih = declaring God transcendent from the properties of things
- Truth = reality outside consciousness
- Mathematics precedes physics
- Al-Samad = that which does not change
- The material world is not an illusion
- Nonbeing = the signifier without a signified
- Divine knowledge precedes creation
- The universe is multiple and changing, and God is transcendent beyond that
- God is a perfect exemplar with no peer
- Will is a human attribute
- Being = God + human consciousness
- Being is the words of God
Verification notes
- The episode is used as a popular explanatory medium, not as a foundational written text.
- When quoting or conducting academic research, one should refer to the original episode and the related books.
- The concept and book links here are a first layer, subject to later precise review.