concept

Shirk

Beliefs & concepts

Associating partners with God in Islamic doctrinal speech. Not idolatry as a bare image-word alone, and not blasphemy as insult speech.

Islam

  • Shirk appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an repeatedly condemns shirk — associating partners with God — as the gravest wrong. Islamic anti-association speech in that revelation, not polytheism as a bare many-gods label alone and not blasphemy as insult speech already walked.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).