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THE QUR'ĀN AS SCRIPTURE
Author(s) -
Jeffery Arthur
Publication year - 1950
Publication title -
the muslim world
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1478-1913
pISSN - 0027-4909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-1913.1950.tb01030.x
Subject(s) - citation , classics , philosophy , history , library science , computer science
In the old-fashioned classification of religions familiar to our forebears, Islam fell among the Scriptural religions as contrasted with those religions which possessed no Holy Book revered by the people as the depository of their religious traditions, and the source to which they turned both for the prescriptions to regulate the daily practice of their religion and the material on which to feed their devotional life. The Qur'an as the Holy Book of Islam thus belonged to the category of Scripture and took its place among the Sacred Books of the East.