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{{PortalArticle|image=Lut Persian Art.jpg|title=Lut|summary= The story of Lot, the one pious man of the twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, is transformed from a parable on the virtue of hospitality into a fiery rebuke of homosexuality in the Islamic tradition.|description=}} | {{PortalArticle|image=Lut Persian Art.jpg|title=Lut|summary= The story of Lot, the one pious man of the twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, is transformed from a parable on the virtue of hospitality into a fiery rebuke of homosexuality in the Islamic tradition.|description=}} | ||
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{{PortalArticle|image=Mary In the Quran.PNG|title=Mary, Sister of Aaron|summary= Mary, the mother of Jesus, gets her own chapter in the Quran and is an important Islamic figure; this chapter, surat-Maryam, also seems to | {{PortalArticle|image=Mary In the Quran.PNG|title=Mary, Sister of Aaron|summary= Mary, the mother of Jesus, gets her own chapter in the Quran and is an important Islamic figure; this chapter, surat-Maryam, also seems to indicate that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is somehow the sister of the Haarun (Aaron), the brother of Moses. |description=}} | ||
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==Islam and the Christian Scriptural Tradition== | ==Islam and the Christian Scriptural Tradition== | ||
Jesus (called 'Isa in the Qur'an, as opposed to Christian Arabs who call him the more accurate title Yasuu') is a primary figure in the Qur'an, and the Qur'an (from the perspective of a Christian heresy hunter) can even be said to have its own Christology. The virgin birth and mother Mary are extremely prominent in the Qur'an, with Mary getting an entire surah dedicated to her. The Muslim apocalypse cycle is also heavily indebted to the Christian tradition, and features not only the return of Jesus to judge the world but also al-masih al-dajaal, the imposter Christ or antichrist. The disciples, though mentioned in the tradition, | Jesus (called 'Isa in the Qur'an, as opposed to Christian Arabs who call him the more accurate title Yasuu') is a primary figure in the Qur'an, and the Qur'an (from the perspective of a Christian heresy hunter) can even be said to have its own Christology. The virgin birth and mother Mary are extremely prominent in the Qur'an, with Mary getting an entire surah dedicated to her. The Muslim apocalypse cycle is also heavily indebted to the Christian tradition, and features not only the return of Jesus to judge the world but also al-masih al-dajaal, the imposter Christ or antichrist. The disciples, though mentioned in the tradition, play no significant part in the stories of the tradition which focuses rather on Jesus and Mary. | ||
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{{PortalArticle|image=Paradise.jpg|title=Jannah (Paradise)|summary= Jannah or paradise is described both in the Qur'an and Sunnah, but the form it takes here is wildly difference from the asexual, cebral experience of heaven described by the Christian Scriptures and tradition.|description=}}{{PortalArticle|image=Ascension of Isa.jpg|title=Qur'anic Christology|summary= The Qur'an and the rest of the tradition describe Jesus as "Al-Masih" or Christ, but what this means in the Qur'an is very different than the orthodox Christian understanding of this idea.|description=}} | {{PortalArticle|image=Paradise.jpg|title=Jannah (Paradise)|summary= Jannah or paradise is described both in the Qur'an and Sunnah, but the form it takes here is wildly difference from the asexual, cebral experience of heaven described by the Christian Scriptures and tradition.|description=}}{{PortalArticle|image=Ascension of Isa.jpg|title=Qur'anic Christology|summary= The Qur'an and the rest of the tradition describe Jesus as "Al-Masih" or Christ, but what this means in the Qur'an is very different than the orthodox Christian understanding of this idea.|description=}} | ||
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===Other articles in this section=== | ===Other articles in this section=== | ||
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{{PortalArticle|image=Seven Sleepers.jpg|title=Seven Sleepers of Ephesus in the Quran|summary=The Christian martyr tale of the 7 sleepers of Ephesus, Christian youths who escaped the persecution of a pagan Roman emperor by falling asleep in a cave for hundreds of years, is recast in the Qur'an as proof of Allah's divine power.|description=}} | {{PortalArticle|image=Seven Sleepers.jpg|title=Seven Sleepers of Ephesus in the Quran|summary=The Christian martyr tale of the 7 sleepers of Ephesus, Christian youths who escaped the persecution of a pagan Roman emperor by falling asleep in a cave for hundreds of years, is recast in the Qur'an as proof of Allah's divine power.|description=}} | ||
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{{PortalArticle|image=Bible Quran.jpg|title= | {{PortalArticle|image=Bible Quran.jpg|title=Parallels Between the Qur'an and Late Antique Judeo-Christian Literature|summary=This article illustrates how the Qur'an took stories from a wide variety of extra-biblical literature from the ancient middle east. Many of these stories can be seen evolving in the centuries leading up to Islam. In some cases stories were even created for Rabbinic exegesis of a single word in the Hebrew scriptures.|description=}} | ||
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