RELIGST 2Q03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hy Lit, Something To Think About, Wahy
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In arabic wahy it is an important term used in quran to mean reveal. Muslim believe it to be word of god reveled via angel gabriel to the prophet mohammad. Muslims believe muhammad could see angel gabriel in the form of a vision. Muslim speculate over the importance of why he was 40 at the ime of revelaion. It"s a big deal that he was 40 at the time of. But lead them down the road to discover him. Hem within that religi: what are some of the implicaions in this verse, pre- Cultural milieu: spoke to t, why would they not deduce from that that allah is all. Powerful: genius of the text - why does this not. Allah - but that it didn"t: the failure as the, transition from. Why lit rhetoric is so important (masterpiece in arabic) Not so much that they don"t want to admit. Cannot be reproduced in other languages to hold the same meaning.