Article The most convincing reason why the traces of the Greek cosmology are not found in the Qurʾān is given by Janos: “[. . .] the Qurʾānic cosmology stems from a different religious background, and it does not contain any conspicuous signs of synthesis or assimilation with the cosmological trends indebted to Ptolemaic astronomy. It appears free…

Article The science of astrology, meaning prognostications predicated on the heavens’ control over the terrestrial realm, has always had a place in Islamic civilisation, particularly at court and in popular culture (George Saliba, ‘The Role of the Astrologer in Medieval Islamic Civilization’, Bulletin d’Études Orientales 44 (1992), pp. 45–67, esp. pp. 51–2). However, astrology and…

The theories about the relation between the universe or macro¬ cosm on the one hand and man or the microcosm on the other, as expounded by such eminent Islamic thinkers as the Ikhwan al-Safa, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), ‘Umar Khayyam, al-Ghazali, and Ibn al-‘ArabI,4 to name but a few, can, it is true, be traced to…

Article Despite the fact that saraban is read most often as an accusative form by the exegetes, some ofer another reading—saraban as the verbal noun of sariba “to low” appearing in adverbial position (ḥāl). For instance, the Shiʿi commentator al-Ṭabrisī (d. 548/1153) sug gests that the phrase could be taken as meaning fa-sariba l-ḥūt saraban…

Many traditions of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East maintained that certain purified persons are able, either physically or psychically, to ascend to the upper reaches of the sky, sometimes into the presence of the creator God himself who resided at the uppermost point of the cosmos. The notion of heavenly ascent by the purified…

Article Revelation within Metaphysical/Physical Cosmology A comparison of Aristotelian, Islamic theological, and Islamic philosophical cosmologies The spheres within classical Greek/Islamic cosmology Revelatory cosmology

When sailors began to navigate to foreign continents and had to cross open and dangerous oceans, this experience triggered the emergence of many fantastic images of monsters and other dangerous creatures, many of those inherited from traditions of the Middle Ages (Chet van Duzer, Seeungeheuer und Monsterfische. Sagenhafte Kreaturen auf alten Karten). On earth, for…

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Some scholars, such as John A. T. Robinson, James Crossley, Jonathan Bernier or Michael Patrick Barber argue that the historical Jesus probably predicted the destruction of the temple. Some of their arguments for this include:

Albrektson, Bertil. “Comments.” Scandia 59, no. 2 (1993): 183–6. Alfeyev, Hilarion. Jesus Christ: His Life and Teaching. New York: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2018. [2–20] Baker, Keith. “The Resurrection of Jesus in its Greco-Roman Setting Part 1.” Reformed Theological Review 62, no. 1 (2003): 1–13. Baker, Keith. “The Resurrection of Jesus in its Greco-Roman Setting…