«Wa kāna l-insānu akṯara šayʾin ǧadalan». Debate and Discussion with the Divinity in the Islamic Tradition
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https://doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2022.001Keywords:
debate, disputation, discussion with the divinity, prophets, Esdras, ʿUzayr, Judeo-Christian apocalyptic literatureAbstract
In Islamic literature, a number of texts can be traced around prophets who plead or argue with the divinity, such as Adam and Eve, Moses, ʿUzayr / Ezra and even the Prophet Muhammad himself. These texts, scattered in various medieval Arabic sources, represent the fragmentary and discontinuous reception that the rich literature of Middle Eastern debate had in the Islamic religious imaginary, from the Sumerian and Akkadian texts to the Hebrew literary genre of disputation or rīb, as well as the apocalyptic Judeo-Christian apocryphal literature.
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