Prophecy and Power by Adonis & Houria Abdelouahed

Author:Adonis & Houria Abdelouahed [Adonis & Abdelouahed, Houria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2021-05-10T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 An oral sequence that names the people who have passed on a ḥadīth or commentary on a Qur’anic verse. According to so-and-so according to so-and-so according to so-and-so … and so on.

2 ‘Assuredly God knows those who speak truly, and assuredly He knows the liars’: Qur’an 29:3.

3 Belonging to the Banū Hāshim, Muhammad’s family.

4 Hela Ouardi, Les Derniers jours de Muhammad, Paris, Albin Michel, 2016.

5 Illiterate.

6 Qur’an 3:144.

7 Syria.

8 The Truthful One.

9 Sages. This refers to the first four caliphs: Abū Bakr, Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, ‘Uthmān ibn ‘Affān, Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib.

10 Saqīfa (Banī Sā‘ida) is the place where the oath of allegiance to Abū Bakr was sworn after Muhammad’s death.

11 Religion and life.

12 ‘[…] the founding of the Mohammedan religion seems to him to be an abbreviated repetition of the Jewish one, in imitation of which it made its appearance … The inner development of the new religion, however, soon came to a standstill, perhaps because it lacked the profundity which in the Jewish religion resulted from the murder of its founder’: Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism, Leonardo Paolo Lovari, 2016.

13 Adonis, Le Regard d’Orphée, conversation with Houria Abdelouahed, Paris, Fayard, 2009.

14 Cf. Violence and Islam, pp. 6–8.

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