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The book Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings offers a new perspective on Judaism, Christianity and Islam as religions of the book. It shows that there is an intricate web of relations between the texts of these three religious traditions.
- Walid Saleh
The Tawrat (Arabic: تَّوْرَاة , romanized: Tawrāh), also romanized as Tawrah or Taurat, is the Arabic-language name for the Torah within its context as an Islamic holy book believed by Muslims to have been given by God to the prophets and messengers amongst the Children of Israel.
Mar 20, 2024 · Learn all about holy books in Islam for your GCSE RS exam. Find information about the authority of the Qur'an, Scrolls of Ibrahim, Tawrat, Zabur, & Injil.
Islamic holy books are certain religious scriptures that are viewed by Muslims as having valid divine significance, in that they were authored by God (Allah) through a variety of prophets and messengers, including those who predate the Quran.
The most important examples given in the Qur'an of such revealed Scriptures are the Torah of Moses (tawrāt), the Gospels of Jesus (injīl, here the Qur'an gives to Jesus what he never claimed to have), and the Psalms of David (zābūr).
- Walid A. Saleh
- 2016
In Hebrew, Aramaic and Canaanite it is el. In Arabic it is il. Adding Al ("the") to Ilah (the masculine form of the stem il) yields Al-ilah, which contracts to the form Allah. The meaning is the One (or High) God. In usage this has the effective meaning of One True God, and is often translated this way in English.
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Here, we will focus on some of the ways in which the biblical tradition is manifested in the Quran, as well as some of the approaches Western scholars have taken in order to explain this phenomenon and its signifi-cance.
