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- Title
The Qur'anic Employment of the Story of Noah.
- Authors
Haleem, M. A. S. Abdel
- Abstract
The view of Noah as being 'the first prophet of punishment' is stated categorically in both editions of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, and Bell includes the Noah story under the heading 'Stories of Punishment' in his Introduction to the Qur'an. More recently, David Marshall, in describing the punishment story in his article on the subject in the recently published Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an, remarks that 'It is to be noted that these stories depict a punishment inflicted by God in this world rather than in the afterlife', and comments that 'their primary purpose was to warn of a punishment from God that would fall upon the Meccan unbelievers if they did not repent and accept Muḥammad's message', before going on to claim that such accounts are 'linked to form a chain of punishment stories suggesting that human history has been a sequence of such encounters between God, messengers and unbelievers'. However, a close reading of the Qur'anic accounts of the Noah story shows that such a view of the Qur'anic approach to prophetic history, specifically in terms of accounts of the prophet Noah, is, in reality, divergent from that found in the actual text of the Qur'an. To this end, the current article surveys the various Noah accounts in the Qur'an, each of which differs in length, form, content and tone according to their context.
- Subjects
QUR'AN; ISLAMIC literature; ISLAM; PUNISHMENT; NOAH (Biblical figure) -- In the Qur'an
- Publication
Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 2006, Vol 8, Issue 1, p38
- ISSN
1465-3591
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/jqs.2006.8.1.38