What is meant
The human being is humankind after humanization and the breathing of the spirit, that is, the domesticated social being Here, the meaning distinguishes between humankind as an origin and the human being as a completed form after transformation and social ascent
The atom’s structure in the atlas
- Type of argument: definitional
- Argument movement: it distinguishes humankind as a physiological origin from the human being as a completed form after humanization.
- Central terms: humankind, human being, humanization, spirit.
- Degree of centrality: foundational.
This atom redefines the human being from within the narrative, making it the result of cognitive and social transformation, and separating the biological origin from the completed human form.
Links to help reading
- Muhammad Shahrur Qur’anic Stories Vol. 1
- History, evolution, and patterns
- The human being
- The spirit
- Adam as a transitional stage in evolutionary humanization
Basis
- Supporting text: “The human being: humankind after humanization and the breathing of the spirit, that is, the domesticated social being.”
Place of the basis in the book
- Book: The Qur’anic Stories Vol. 1.
- Location: at the beginning of the book, within the section on the story of Adam
- Type of basis: direct evidence.
- Marker that helps verification: humankind’s transition from the stage of the savage to the stage of humanization
- Reading note: the location is appropriate because it explicitly speaks about the transition of humankind from savagery to humanization and the beginning of its social formation.
Degree of documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom relies on an explicit witness 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 witness is quoted textually.
Its function in the book
Its function here is definitional; it establishes a meaning or conceptual distinction on which Shahrur relies in building the idea.
Related to
Editorial note
The wording is brief, but it touches the core of the concept.