tradition
Islam
The religion of the Qur’an and the communities that take it as revelation. Later occult “Islamic magic” talk is not a substitute for the text or for named legal schools.
Also known as Muslim tradition
Meetings with this tradition
Arabia
Islam appears in Arabia.
The Hijaz is the geography of Mecca and the early community. Islam later travelled; the qibla still names that house.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Mecca is sacred to Islam.
Mecca is the city of the Sacred Mosque in Islamic practice. A Hijazi city of that religion, not a generic holy city of all traditions.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Qibla belongs to Islam.
The Qur’an commands the community to face the Sacred Mosque as qibla in prayer. The prayer direction belongs to Islamic practice, not a generic sacred compass and not the Kaaba’s city-membership alone.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Qur’an belongs to Islam.
The Qur’an is Islam’s scripture. Recitation and law read it; they do not make it a Hermetic tablet.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Green is associated with Islam.
Green has been used in Islamic banners, tiles, and later national colors. That is a historical color-use, not Osiris’s funerary face and not leaf-theology.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Jinn appears in Islam.
The Qur’an speaks of jinn as created beings of smokeless fire, addressed alongside humans. Islamic scripture’s own agents, not a generic spirit label.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Angel appears in Islam.
The Qur’an addresses angels as messengers and attendants of God. Islamic angelology in scripture, not a free label for every helpful spirit.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Staff of Musa appears in Islam.
The Qur’an has Musa throw his staff so that it becomes a serpent, and later strike the sea with it. A named prophetic staff in that revelation, not a generic staff and not Nehushtan the bronze serpent of another book.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Maqam Ibrahim appears in Islam.
The Qur’an names Maqam Ibrahim at the Sacred Mosque as a station of prayer. A named standing-place in that revelation, not the Black Stone, not the Kaaba dump, and not qibla restated.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Olive appears in Islam.
The Qur’an opens sura 95 with an oath by the fig and the olive. A named plant in that Arabic scripture, not Athena’s civic gift at Athens, and not Dioscorides’ olive among drugs.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Musa appears in Islam.
The Qur’an names Mūsā as the prophet of the staff and the sea. A named messenger in that revelation, not the staff of Musa as identity, and not a deity.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Meetings in this tradition's context
Arabia
Qibla is associated with Kaaba.
Qibla is the direction of prayer toward the Kaaba. The Qur’an fixes the Sacred Mosque as that orientation for the community.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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The Kaaba stands in Mecca. The house and the city are not a generic “world navel.”
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Qibla is associated with Mecca.
To face the qibla is to face toward Mecca’s sanctuary. A geographic direction in a legal-ritual sense.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Mecca is a Hijazi city. The region is the map, not a mystic east.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Kaaba is associated with Circle.
Ṭawāf circulates the house. A ritual circuit around a cuboid, not a Hermetic circle of art.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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The Qur’an names the Sacred House and the change of qibla. The Arabic text is the source; later occult cubes are not.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Qibla is associated with Calendar.
Daily ṣalāh is timed; qibla is a direction, not a month. Both belong to Islamic practice without being the same tool.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Qur’an is associated with Writing.
The Qur’an is recited and written. Scripture as speech-mark, not a Hermetic tablet.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Qur’an is associated with Book.
A muṣḥaf is a bound or gathered text. The Arabic revelation is not “a book of the dead” and not a tarot booklet.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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Qibla is associated with Four.
Facing one direction organizes space. It is not a four-direction cosmology of another continent.
from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE
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sources
- The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)
M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).