Location of the witness: «Qur’anic Narratives, vol. 2», p. 8.
What Is Attributed to Shahrur
Based on a close witness not supplied with its raw context, this atom records that Shahrur rejects applying juridical analogy to Qur’anic narratives. It summarizes the reason for this rejection as a conflation of the message and the narratives, and of the definitive and the ambiguous.
Elsewhere, he states that “the sole divine purpose of Qur’anic narratives, including the Muhammadan narratives, is reflection, contemplation, and drawing lessons and admonitions.” This specifies, at this point, the purpose he assigns to narratives.
Atlas Explanation
The atom records a prohibition against transferring a tool of inference from the domain of jurisprudence to narratives without distinguishing between the two domains. It does not assume that everything connected with narratives is separate from every legislative question; rather, it is limited to the rejection, summarized by the atom, of applying juridical analogy to them.
For connected reading: The Qur’anic narrative is not material for legislation, the Qur’anic narrative, the definitive, and the ambiguous.
Synthetic Conclusion
The Atlas’s conclusion from the two witnesses is that the claim functions within the book’s structure as an objection to conflating types of Qur’anic material and the tools used to read them. According to the direct quotation, narratives are directed toward reflection and drawing lessons; therefore, juridical analogy is not presumed to operate in them in the same way.
Open Question and Limits
The available witness does not explain the definition of juridical analogy or its detailed limits, nor does it name complete alternative methods for reading narratives. The central witness is also preserved in the evidence record as a close witness, but without accompanying raw context; the presentation therefore does not go beyond the meaning summarized in the atom record.
The book’s broader context: Muhammad Shahrur Qur’anic Narratives vol. 2 and Critique of Heritage, Jurisprudence, and Exegesis.