TY - CHAP
T1 - Torah
AU - Adang, Camilla
N1 - Another version appeared in "Encyclopedia of the Qur'an" V (2006) 300-311.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - 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...
AB - 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...
M3 - فصل
SN - 9781948488204
T3 - Resources in Arabic and Islamic studies
SP - 1
EP - 13
BT - Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible
A2 - Adang, Camilla
A2 - Schmidtke, Sabine
CY - Atlanta, Georgia
ER -