Meaning
The passage holds that Isra’iliyyat in exegesis are not innocent additions, but rather a factor that corrupts the understanding of Qur’anic narratives and distorts their image. It particularly highlights their effect in distorting the image of women and introducing scriptural accounts into exegesis.
Structure of the Atom in the Atlas
- Type of argument: critical.
- Movement of the argument: attributes the distortion of narratives to the infiltration of Isra’iliyyat into exegesis.
- Central terms: Isra’iliyyat, Qur’anic narratives, exegesis, women.
- Degree of centrality: central.
It clarifies how exegesis becomes a vehicle of distortion when it introduces accounts from outside the text, thereby affecting the image and purposes of the Qur’anic narrative.
Links That Aid Reading
- Muhammad Shahrur Qur’anic Narratives Vol. 1
- Critique of Heritage, Jurisprudence, and Exegesis
- Isra’iliyyat
- Qur’anic Narratives
- Islam Is a Universal Human Message
Support
- Supporting text: “Isra’iliyyat in exegesis as a cause of the distortion of Qur’anic narratives.”
Degree of Documentation
- Level: directly documented.
- Meaning of the level: the atom is based on explicit evidence close to the wording of the claim.
- Limits of reading: the wording above is an analytical summary and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the evidence is reproduced textually.
Its Function in the Book
Its function here is objectional; it responds to a common understanding or challenges an inherited reading at this point.
Related to
Note for the Reader
The atom has a clear critical function and prepares the ground for atoms concerning women and narrative.