Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Der Islam; Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients
Angaben zur Quelle:
99,2 (2022) 289-311
Keywords:
Abraham Islamic interpretations
;
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bible. Islamic interpretations
;
Qurʼan Relation to the Bible
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Circumcision Religious aspects
;
Islam
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Islam History To 1500
Abstract:
The article asserts that verses 124–130 in the second sūrah of the Qurʾān (al-Baqara/“The Cow”) alludes to the biblical precept (Genesis 17) but presents the practice as a custom that has no special virtues, and certainly not those the Jews ascribed to it. It then claims that circumcision is identified as one of Abraham’s trials, which are mentioned in the Qurʾān and thus part of early Islam, and that this idea did not arise in the Middle Ages.
DOI:
10.1515/islam-2022-0021
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