Original Episode Map

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This page is the working index for the episodes of the Great Tiding program. Each episode has become a separate page, read as a short analytical map rather than as a transcript or a chapter from a book.

The internal archive contains 30 text transcripts and 30 audio files. The atlas does not publish these files; instead, it uses them for analysis, verification, and for linking the episodes to the atoms, concepts, and books.

Episodes

EpisodeTitle in the AtlasStageAtomsYouTube
1Criteria of reading: universality, mercy, finality, and the rejection of synonymyEstablishing reading tools and the structure of revelation12Available
2Rhetoric, abrogation, the tiding, and the report in revelationEstablishing reading tools and the structure of revelation14Available
3The Qur’an and the Book: prophecy and cosmic and historical lawsEstablishing reading tools and the structure of revelation12Available
4The Book, the Mother of the Book, the definitive, and the ambiguousEstablishing reading tools and the structure of revelation13Available
5The reminder, the locations of the stars, and the meaning of inimitabilityEstablishing reading tools and the structure of revelation13Available
6The seven oft-repeated ones, the sending down, and the revelationEstablishing reading tools and the structure of revelation13Available
7Theory of knowledge: existence, truth, and God’s wordsKnowledge and the Sunnas13Available
8The senses, the fu’ād, the heart, destiny, and decreeKnowledge and the Sunnas13Available
9The sending down and revelation and their effect on decree and destinyKnowledge and the Sunnas13Available
10Sustenance and lifespans: the Book and laws, not individual designationKnowledge and the Sunnas13Available
11Plurality and difference as evidence of God’s onenessKnowledge and the Sunnas14Available
12The Merciful, the Compassionate, Surat al-Tawba, and the destruction of townsKnowledge and the Sunnas14Available
13Islam, faith, Muslims, and criminalsClassification of religious and ethical concepts12Available
14Religion, creed, and rituals in the Muhammadan messageClassification of religious and ethical concepts12Available
15Unbelief and polytheism: declaration and practical stanceClassification of religious and ethical concepts12Available
16Polytheism as stasis, and sin as backwardnessClassification of religious and ethical concepts13Available
17The definitive and the ambiguous, and the beginning of liberating the concept of the forbiddenClassification of religious and ethical concepts13Available
18The forbidden, prohibitions, food, and the limits of legislative authorityThe lawful and the forbidden, and custom11Available
19Amusement, boasting, wealth, and childrenThe lawful and the forbidden, and custom13Available
20The arts, custom, and the limits of the lawful and the forbiddenThe lawful and the forbidden, and custom13Available
21The nation-state: from village to city and pluralityThe state, plurality, and fighting12Available
22Sovereignty, creeds, and the right to religious existenceThe state, plurality, and fighting13Available
23Verses of fighting: the state, defense, and freedom of choiceThe state, plurality, and fighting13Available
24The Medina model, Banu Qurayza, and the application of the law to its peopleThe state, plurality, and fighting12Available
25Paradise and Hell, requital, and an introduction to bequest and inheritanceRequital, bequest, and inheritance13Available
26Bequest before inheritance: private justice and public justiceRequital, bequest, and inheritance12Available
27Inheritance: those mentioned, shares, and cases of equalityRequital, bequest, and inheritance13Available
28The solemn covenant, divorce, and the accumulation of family legislationFamily, marriage, and lineage12Available
29Guardianship, recalcitrance, and the relationship between men and womenFamily, marriage, and lineage12Available
30Adoption, lineage, parents and progenitors, and the program’s conclusionFamily, marriage, and lineage13Available

How do you use this map?

Start with the episode, then move to the atoms extracted from it, then to the nearby concepts and books. In this way, the episodes remain an explanatory entry point, while the books remain Shahrur’s main text.

30 items under this folder.

Muhammad Shahrur Atlas