Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians - Electric Scotland

INDEX t 283
Palestine, 11–12, 15, 189
Paraclete, 24
Paradise, 259
Passion play, 238–239
Passover, 226, 239
Paul, 8, 73, 98, 114, 189
People(s) of the Book, 4, 5, 81, 102–
103, 113, 188, 191, 195–196
Peter, 125
Philo, 111, 122, 243
Pilgrimage, 12, 15–19, 33, 232–233;
Jewish, 233
Pillars of Islam, 217, 245
Plato, 171
Polygamy, 83
Polytheism, 60–61, 89
Pope, 249
Prayer (salat), 8, 64, 70, 216–217,
219–221; Friday service, 221–222
Prayer, direction of, 70–71, 73, 220,
221; of the pagans, 45, 47–48
Profession of faith, 196, 199, 217,
248
Promised Land, 7, 11–12
Prophetic reports (hadith), 64, 105–
106, 161, 163–168, 184, 198;
criticism of, 167–168
Qadi, 164, 169–170
Qairwan, 147
Qajars, 152
Qarmatians, 143
Qasim, infant son of Muhammad, 83
Qaynuqa, Jewish tribe of Medina 78
Qibla. See Prayer, direction of
Qiyama, “Resurrection,” 143, 145
Qom, 151, 152
Quran, 1, 2, 216; background of, 32;
divisions of, 94; performance of,
55–57, 116–117; “convincing” or
“clear” Arabic, 31, 59, 131, 243;
absence of narrative line, 2, 106–
107; biblical quality of 1, 30;
Arabian quality of 30–31; Jews in,
20–22; Jesus in, 22–25; Christians
and Christianity in 25–29; use of
Scriptures 107–109; style of 115–
118; ambiguities in, 113; message
of, 57–59; legal material in, 163;
and the End Time 261–262; and
history 118–119; and Muslim life,
216–217; and tradition, 161–162;
as “criterion” (furqan) 254; as
“warning,” 107; as Book or
Scripture, 56–57, 93, 99 ff.; as
prayer, 104; oral transmission 92;
collection of 90–93; compared to
Bible and Gospels, 100–101;
created or uncreated 123–124;
inimitability of, 115–116
Quraysh, 35, 37, 42, 44, 54, 58, 79–
80, 85; their boycott of
Muhammad, 65–66
Qurayza, Jewish tribe of Medina, 78
Qusayy, 35
Radi, al-, caliph, 145
Rahman, 49
Ramadan (fast), 71, 72, 216–217
Rayhana, concubine of Muhammad, 84
Recitation, the (al-Quran), 1, 30, 56,
93, 101, 116–117
Religion, Arabian, 41–43, 46–48
Religious Orders, 248–250
Renan, Ernest, 31
Resurrection of the dead, 60, 261–
262
Ribat, 248
Rosary, 3
Ruqayya, daughter of Muhammad 83
Saadya Gaon, 62
Sacrifice of Isaac, 10, 229
Sacrifice, pre-Islamic, 46–47; Islamic,
225
Sadat, Anwar, 214