This index gathers the atoms within the book The Qur’anic Stories Vol. 2 and links them to the index of claims.
Atom pages
- Asbāb al-nuzūl is not a universal key
- Myth combines truth and imagination
- The default ruling on things is permissibility
- Human beings participate in making history
- Banīn may mean construction
- Human history is not subject to determinism
- History resists programming
- Interpretation is a gradual process of understanding
- Prohibition pertains to acts, not essences
- Inherited exegesis obscures the text
- The Wise Revelation is not a history book
- The Wise Revelation runs counter to this tendency
- The text is fixed, while the content is renewed
- Historical law is linked to human freedom
- The Flood was a local event in the Levant
- Future unseen matters are not known with certainty
- The Salafi reading makes the past an absolute reference
- Qur’anic stories do not yield legislation
- Qur’anic stories are not for prediction
- Qur’anic stories record the development of the messages
- Stories are not used for legislation
- Stories reveal historical laws
- Stories distinguish between nabaʾ and report
- Juristic analogy does not extend to stories
- The common word lays the foundation for coexistence
- Livestock are not all animals
- Shahrur’s definition of livestock
- Generalizing asbāb al-nuzūl leads to fatalism
- Thamūd was an extinct Arab tribe
- God’s knowledge does not entail compulsion
- The purpose of Qur’anic stories is reflection
- The story of Adam is stripped of mythologization
- The story of Hūd highlights civilization-building
- The story of Joseph supports a rational reading
- With Hūd, livestock and pastoralism emerged
- The benefits of livestock are broader than meat
- Critique of the Salafi reading of stories
- Noah was the first messenger from among humankind
- Hūd represents a later civilizational stage
- Human beings’ function is to plan from the present