Intended meaning
The passage holds that the Isra’iliyyat in exegesis are not innocent additions, but a factor that corrupts understanding of the Qur’anic narratives and distorts their image. It especially highlights their effect in distorting the image of women and introducing biblical reports into exegesis.
The atom’s structure in the atlas
- Type of argument: Critical
- Movement of the argument: It traces the distortion of the narratives to the seepage of the Isra’iliyyat into exegesis.
- Key terms: the Isra’iliyyat, the Qur’anic narratives, exegesis, women.
- Degree of centrality: Pivotal.
It explains how exegesis turns into a medium of distortion when it introduces reports from outside the text, thereby affecting the image of the Qur’anic narrative and its purposes.
Reading aids
- Muhammad Shahrur Qur’anic Narratives Vol. 1
- Critique of heritage, jurisprudence, and exegesis
- the Isra’iliyyat
- the Qur’anic narratives
- Islam is a universal human message
Basis
- Supporting text: «The Isra’iliyyat in exegesis as a cause of distorting the Qur’anic narratives».
Degree of documentation
- Level: Directly documented
- Meaning of the level: The atom is based on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Limits of the reading: The wording above is an analytical summary and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is quoted word for word.
Its function in the book
Its function here is oppositional; it responds to a common understanding or overturns an inherited reading at this point.
Related to
Editorial note
The atom has a clear critical function, and it paves the way for the atoms related to women and narration.