Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible; Texts and Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2019) 49-72
Keywords:
Ibn Qutaybah, Abd Allah ibn Muslim, Criticism and interpretation
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Bible Islamic interpretations
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History
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Islamic literature, Arabic History and criticism
Abstract:
From the very beginning, the legacy of the Hebrew Bible and, to a lesser extent, the New Testament has been an important element in shaping the Muslim tradition. The Qurʾān situates itself as the ultimate revelatory step within a progressive series of divine dispensations and reflects an intimate awareness of the earlier scriptures and of a much longer list of earlier prophets, with the Qurʾānic revelation being the full and final dispensation and Muḥammad being the “seal of the prophets” (ḫātam al-nabiyyīn; Q 33:40).¹ However, the Qurʾān’s stance toward the Bible is an inherently ambivalent one, and this ambivalence has...
Note:
Appeared previously in "Islam and Christian Muslim Relations" 22,3 (2011) 249-274.
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Includes a critical edition of the first eight sections of the Arabic text (pp. 60-72).
DOI:
10.2307/j.ctvd1c9ww.8
URL:
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