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Sīra and the Qurʾān [Supplement 2016]
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Sīra is a branch of Arabic literature that is devoted to the earliest salvation history of Islam and focuses on God’s actions towards and through his prophet Muḥammad, i.e. the revelation of the Qurʾān and the foundation of an Islamic community. The term
sīra can also denote a work belonging to that literature.
Sīra is the noun of kind
(fiʿla) of the Arabic verb
sāra, “to go,” “to travel,” etc., indicating the manner in which the action expressed by the verb is carried out (see Arabic language; grammar and the Qurʾān). Hence, it originally meant “way of going,” but its most frequent …
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Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān
Date:
2016-11-17