Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible; Texts and Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2019) 1-13
Keywords:
Moses Islamic interpretations
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Qurʼan Relation to the Pentateuch
;
Islam Relations
;
Judaism
;
Judaism Relations
;
Islam
Abstract:
The “Torah,” the scripture revealed by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, is mentioned in the Qurʾān by name (Ar. Tawrāt) eighteen times, but a number of other terms are also used for the same revelation. The Arabic word Tawrāt clearly derives, if perhaps indirectly, from the Hebrew Torah, meaning law.¹ In keeping, however, with the widespread belief that the Qurʾān does not contain words of foreign origin, Muslim commentators traced it back to an Arabic root, viz. w-r-y, which means “to strike fire,” a reference to the light said to be in the Torah.² Some, like the exegetes Faḫr...
Note:
Another version appeared in "Encyclopedia of the Qur'an" V (2006) 300-311.
DOI:
10.2307/j.ctvd1c9ww.5
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