Opening the Qur'an: Introducing Islam's Holy Book

General Index

general index 516 Aaron, 319 Abd Allah (Abdullah, father of Muhammad), 117 Abd Allah (son of Muhammad), 118 Abd al-Muttalib, 117 Abduh, Muhammad, 187 Abdullah ibn Masud, 474n34 Abdullah ibn Ubbai, 215 Abrahah, 98 Abraham, 27–28, 97, 308–14 Mecca under, 111, 113 in the Qur’an, 309–11 relevance —for Muhammad and the first umma, 312–14 —today, 314 wife of, 263 Abrahamic Covenant Jesus and, 45–46 in Judaism, 27–29 Abrahamic Faiths, 11–12 abrogation of Qur’an passages, 154–57, 388 jihad and, 375–77 types of, 474n42 Abu al-Magd, Kamal Ahmad, 418 Abu Bakr (Bekr), 129 collation of Quranic statements, 152, 474n34 conversion of, 124 move to Medina, 128 successor to Muhammad, 136, 137–38 Abu Dawood as-Sijistani (Dawud), xiv on recitation of Ya Sin, 228 Abu Huraira, 154 Abu Labab, 262 wife of, 262–63 Abu Labab, Abu Sufyan, 386 Abu Talib, 117–18 death of, 125 Adamic Covenant Jesus and, 46 in Judaism, 25 Adam in the Qur’an, 61–62 second covenant and, 62–64 ad-Dajjal, 241–42, 481n8 adhan (call), 81 adultery necessity of witnesses to prove, 156 punishment for, 157, 216, 358, 364 ahadith. See hadiths ‘ahd, 59 ahl al-Bayt, 271 ahl al-Kisa (People of the Cloak), 271 Ahmad ibn Hanbal, 473n18 ahruf, 150 al-Ahzab (the Confederates, Surah 33) account of Battle of the Trench, 388 time of revelation, 274 Aisha bint Abu Bakr, 136, 271, 272, 484n21 and discord in Muhammad’s household, 278 marriage to Muhammad, 129 slander against, 215 al-Afghani, Jamal al-Din, 187 al-Akhira. See Hereafter Al-Azhar, 498n19, 498n20 alcohol consumption, prohibition against, 129, 382 Maududi and, 415 Alexander the Great, 99 Dhu al-Qarnayn and, 241 Zul-qarnain as, 481n10 Ali, 118, 129, 136, 270 conversion, 121 move to Medina, 128 Ali, Ahmed, 456n3 Ali, Maulana Muhammad, 456n3 Ali, Muhammad, 288 Ali,Yusuf Abdullah, 456n3, xii–xiii, xv on abbreviated or disunited letters, 143 on jihad, 369, 385 references to God’s throne, 207–8 on Seven Mathani, 144 on structure of the Qur’an, 160–61 Allah, xiv–xv alms. See Zakat al-Qaeda, 408 Amal, 407, 496n16 Aminah, 117 angelology, Islamic, 62 angels, 345 belief in, 86–87 recording, 245 Annotations on the Latin of the New Testament (Valla), 174 Ansari, Zafar Ishaq, 414 al-Ansari, Jabir bin Abdullah, 122 apocalypticism with contemporary political emphases, 241 in Judaism, 35–36 —Jesus and, 46–47 apostasy, 365–67 defined, 366 jihad and, 392 punishment for, 358 —as justification for assassination of Sadat, 413 of Salman Rushdie, 431 “Appeal to the CivilizedWorld and to All Peace-Loving Powers, An” (al-Azhar), 408, 498n20 Arabia, 110–15 Abraham in, 311 Christians in, 346–47 commerce in, 97 geography of, 93–95 as Holy Land, 102–3 map of, 95 peoples of, 96–102 —central and northern regions, 99–102 —southern peoples, 99 Sassanids and, 107 Arabic as holy language, 102 use in recitation of the Qur’an, 145 Arab League. See League of Arab States Arberry, Arthur J., 456n3 al-Ashari, Abu Musa (Abdullah ibn Qays), 484n34 Athanasius, 53 Aya al-Hijab (Verse of the Veil), 275–76 Aya Ar-Rajm (stoning verse), 157 General Index 517 ayas, 141 defined, 141, ix differing number of, 461n33 order of, 19, 152 Ayas of Choice (Ayat al-Tahir), 273–74 al-Azhar, Shaykh, 408 Babylonian Talmud, 37 Badr Springs, Battle of, 130–31 as jihad, 383–85 Baeck, Leo, 476n13 Bahrain, 94 Balfour Declaration, 495n9 al-Banna, Hasan, 187 Banu Hashem, 102 bara’a, 59 Barth, Karl, 458n9 Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch, 12 Basmillah, 141, 198 “beauty” of man and woman, 282–83 Bedouins, nomadic, Muhammad and, 382 believers on Day of Judgment, 226, 247 benYitzak, Shlomo, 172 Bible. See also Hebrew Bible; New Testament; Old Testament; Septuagint compared to Qur’an, 300–302 incompleteness of, 302 interpretations of —contemporary, 176–77 —pre-Renaissance, 170–71 —from Renaissance on, 173–74 Muratorian Canon, 466n62 Quranic perspectives on, 298–302 scandalous behavior in, 301 Bilal (the Living Minaret), 124, 129 Bin Laden, Osama, 393, 497n18 blasphemers anti-blasphemy laws in Pakistan, 462n35 Christians as, 345 blessings, honorific or reverential, xv blood feud, 365 book, Qur’an as, 16, 18–19, 75, 151 Books, the. See also Ingil; Tawrah perversion by Jews and Christians of, 88 revelation through the, 74 Bukhari, Muhammad ibn Isma’il, xiv...