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4 days ago · Qurʾān, the sacred scripture of Islam. According to conventional Islamic belief, the Qurʾān was revealed by the angel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad in the West Arabian towns Mecca and Medina beginning in 610 and ending with Muhammad’s death in 632 ce.
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Qurʾān - Interpretation, Exegesis, Tafsir: The Islamic...
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Qurʾān - Divine, Islamic, Scripture: Many early sūrahs are...
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4 days ago · Qurʾān - Islamic Scripture, Compilation, Revelation: Whether or not the Qurʾān was divinely revealed is a question of religious belief that is not amenable to historical or philological confirmation or falsification. What does admit of scholarly scrutiny, however, is the text’s likely appearance in place and time.
5 days ago · Therefore the eye of God is interpreted as His care for His creation as God says in the Quran “And I bestowed upon you love from Me that you would be brought up under My eye”. (20.39) Therefore one can say that the early theologians’ method was one of belief and the later theologians’ method was one of debate.
4 days ago · Qurʾān - Interpretation, Exegesis, Tafsir: The Islamic tradition has produced a rich and sophisticated exegetical literature. There is, first, Qurʾānic exegesis in the narrow sense, consisting of dedicated commentaries that treat the text of scripture in its canonical order, either verse by verse or section by section.
1 day ago · Looking at the text of the Quran itself, Hawting has also argued that the criticism of idolaters and polytheists contained in Quran is in fact a hyperbolic reference to other monotheists, in particular the Arab Jews and Arab Christians, whose religious beliefs were considered imperfect.
3 days ago · The Imamate According to Shi‘ism. Lexically, the word “Shi‘a” means “adherent” (ansar), such that the related word “partisanship” (tashayyu‘) denotes the victory of one over another (al-intisar). Historically, the word “Shi‘a” refers to the supporters of ‘Ali bin Abi Talib, God be well-pleased with him.
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1 day ago · From this definition, we know that the scholars have traditionally been concerned with three major questions: knowledge of the general proofs of fiqh; the manner in deriving from them; and the knowledge of he who is entrusted with this derivation, or ijtihad, especially whether he is capable of it or not.
