[PDF.63ud] Journeys in Holy Lands: The Evolution of the Abraham-Ishmael Legends in Islamic Exegesis

Journeys in Holy Lands: The Evolution of the Abraham-Ishmael Legends in Islamic Exegesis

[PDF.ia60] Journeys in Holy Lands: The Evolution of the Abraham-Ishmael Legends in Islamic Exegesis

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 | #1590869 in Books |  State University of New York Press |  1990-07-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.64 x5.50l,.80 | File type: PDF | 284 pages

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||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| valuable overview of the Abrahamic hadith|By David Reid Ross|This book is a scholarly overview of the Islamic take on Abraham's career and family. It is organised per topic.

The Islamic tradition upon the Patriarch's life holds that he had spent his childhood in Iraq, was persecuted for his Islam, and fled to Syria / Palestine. Firestone's book skips all that, to the| |Reuven Firestone discusses the relationships among Jewish, Christian, and Islamic treatments of Abraham and Ishmael without resorting to the older and invidious terms of borrowing and dependency. He is sensitive to the individual genius of each tradition while

Scholars have long pointed to the great affinity between stories found in the Bible and the Qur'an, yet no explanation has been proposed that satisfactorily explains the odd combination of incredible likeness and unique divergence. Firestone provides a refreshing, new approach to scriptural issues of textuality, exegesis, and the origins and use of legend.

This book clearly presents the full range of Islamic legends from the Qur'an and early Islamic exegesis about Ab...

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