Intended Meaning
The intended meaning is that the Wise Revelation does not deal with transmitted reports as truths to be accepted as they are, but rather reads them critically It thus moves in the opposite direction from the tendency that is satisfied with uncritical reception
The Atom’s Structure in the Atlas
- Type of argument: methodological
- Movement of the argument: the Wise Revelation reads transmitted reports critically, not through uncritical reception.
- Key terms: the Wise Revelation, transmitted reports, critical reading.
- Degree of centrality: central.
This atom affirms that the criterion for dealing with transmitted reports is critique, not prior acceptance. It thereby supports an interpretive direction that makes the text the primary reference rather than inherited narration.
Links That Help Reading
- Muhammad Shahrur’s Qur’anic Stories, vol. 2
- the contemporary reading method
- the Wise Revelation
- The Wise Revelation reads the stories critically to establish coexistence and freedom
Basis
- Supporting text: “The Wise Revelation opposes this tendency; it reads the transmitted reports critically.”
Degree of Documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom rests on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Limits of reading: the wording above is an analytic summary and is not treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is quoted verbatim.
Its Function in the Book
Its function here is argumentative; it supports a larger conclusion in the chapter or prepares the ground for it.
Related To
Editorial Note
This source connects directly to the methodology of distinguishing between the text and the transmitted report.