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Book: The Qurʾān

Chapter: 6 Livestock ۞ Al-An‘ām

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.15286

Blurb:

This sūra emphasizes the creative power of one God, especially as manifested in the signs of an ordered
natural world, and on that basis attacks the folly of idolatry, charging that other so-called gods are really
‘jinn.’ The story of Abraham’s rejection of idols is repeated, and a parallel is drawn between the ‘religion’
of Abraham and the Prophet, as well as between the Torah of Moses and the Prophet’s Qur’ān.

Chapter Contributors

  • translated by A. J. Droge ([email protected] - book-auth-588) 'University of Toronto at Mississauga'