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Myth and Reality. New York: Harper, There may have been more wondrous accounts of the events, but when they filtered through the discourses of historians, exegetes and hadith scholars, all three groups rather similarly sanitised them, dulling any flare that would render them out of place in sober discourse.

Given the above, it seems that the origin of the Satanic Verses story cannot be derived from the different epistemes under which its narrators operated. The over-arching narrative congruence would suggest a single origin from which scholars in all three fields proceeded. Ahmed limits his study to Arabic Muslim traditions, and primarily those of Sunni writers. Peter Webb Leiden University p. WKAS, vol.

My thanks to Geoffrey Moseley for bringing this to my attention. Did the Prophet realize on his own that he had erred, or was he unaware of having erred until he was corrected by Gabriel?

This terse gloss on Q. The pagans of the people of Mecca heard that and were pleased. These early authorities, he argues, eschewed theological rectitude for the demands of the respective genres to which they contributed. Ahmed leans heavily on the idea of genre here—perhaps too heavily. Pace Ahmed Before Orthodoxy, p. Later I saw him killed as an unbeliever.

He was Umayya b. See also Shoshan, Popular Culture, pp. Rubin, Eye of the Beholder, pp. Hence, there may have been no doctrinal consensus to contravene. Amir-Moezzi and Kohlberg, Revelation and Falsification, p. Hence, this reading of Q. Bar-Asher, Scripture and Exegesis, pp. If He meant recitation, the intended meaning was that anyone who was sent before you as a messenger, when he recited what he conveyed to his people, they distorted it against him and added to what he said and subtracted [from it], just as the Jews had done by lying against their prophets.

He attributed that to Satan … If He meant desires of the heart, then this is something that God cancels out. However, his account does stand out for its clarity and its forcefulness. I would like to express my gratitude to Prof. Morteza Karimi-Nia for pointing out this passage to me. God attributed it to Satan because it only occurred due to his guile and whisperings. His answer, however, leaves us with a tantalizing paradox.

This thesis explores, first of all, the roots of the issue of Orthodox-Baptist similarities and dissimilarities in the nineteenth century. The remainder of the thesis focuses on to There is a chapter analyzing the way in which, in significant areas, Russian Baptist theology resembled Orthodox thinking. This is followed by a study of church and sacraments, which again shows that Russian Baptist approaches had echoes of Orthodoxy.

The thesis then explores Baptist liturgy, showing the Orthodox elements that were present. The same connections are then explored in the area of Russian Baptist communal spiritual traditions.

The examination of the Bible, beliefs and behaviour also indicates the extent to which Russian Baptists mirrored Orthodoxy. Finally there is an analysis of the popular piety of the Russian Baptists and the way in which they constructed an alternative culture. The basic views of Russian Baptists between the s and have been drawn from periodicals of the Russian Baptist communities and from interviews with pastors presbyters and church members who were part of these communities. The aim of the thesis is to show that in a period in the history of the USSR when the division between the Western world and the Soviet bloc was marked, there was a strong Eastern orientation among Russian Baptists.

This changed when the USSR came to an end. Over a number of years there was mass emigration of Russian Baptists and, in addition, pro-Western thinking gained considerable ground within the Russian Baptist community.

During the period examined here, however, it is possible to uncover a great deal of evidence of Russian Baptists participating in Orthodox theology, spiritual mentality and culture.

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Azra, A. Verses, see Ahmed, Before Orthodoxy , pp. Abdel Haleem's translation, The Qur'an, p. For more on these verses, on the Goddesses, and their link to the Satanic Verses, see Ahmed, Before Orthodoxy , pp. SM, p. These men , whom the whole Church denies , do not call themselves the new Catholics , but the old Catholics ; that is to say , Catholics of the day before the innovations of Romish Orthodoxy , Catholics of the day before the Pope George E.