In the mid–eighteenth century, the emergence of the Wahhābī movement in central Arabia gave rise to a new subgenre of the refutation, that of Wahhābism and its founder. In the early 1150s/early 1740s, a number of heated anti-Wahhābī tracts appeared almost simultaneously in and around the Arabian Peninsula. In the Ḥijāz, al-Aḥsāʾ, and southern Iraq,…

The proximity of the Day of Judgment (yawm al-dīn) is emphasized in numerous passages in the Qurʾān, especially in the so-called “Meccan” Sūrahs. According to Nicolai Sinai, these eschatological motifs are among the earliest elements of the qurʾānic proclamations (Nicolai Sinai, “The Eschatological Kerygma of the Early Qur’an,” in Apocalypticism and Eschatology in Late Antiquity:…

https://www.academia.edu/12304787/Late_Antique_Apocalyptic_a_Context_for_the_Qur_an Eschatological thinking had been part of Christian and Jewish assumptions from an early stage, and early Christians lived in expectation of an imminent end. When this did not happen, various adjustments had had to be made, and this still continued in late antiquity in many different spheres14 – certainly not without being contested and…

Article The textual eatures of Siras 10-15 are our irst indication that we are dealing here with a grouping that goes beyond the coincidental. The irst is their similar 1mulaic opening. The six suras all start with the mysterious letter sequence, alif lim ri’ (with the exception of Sira 13, which has one additional letter…

According to the Quran, no. (edit: my bad guys, Study Qu’ran = heretic/bad, but ay, i didn’t say i agree with the whole book did i?) (edited) Q79 – It is unclear whether the audience addressed Muhammad because they doubt that the Hour [15] will ever come to pass—as the associators and disbelievers typically do—or…

The Qur’anic Surahs with the Lowest Mean Verse Length

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Nicolai Sinai (The eschatological Kerygma of the early Qur’an, p. 236), for example, interprets the eschatology of the Qur’an as a means to motivate its audience to do good and be obedient to God: As underlined by Andrae, the early Qur’an’s evocations and portrayals of the end of the world and the hereafter primarily serve…

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