Islamo-Biblica-Isrā'īliyyāt and Islamic  Legal and Ritual Practises

Mecca and Medina - Ḥajj (Pilgrimage) and the Ka`bah

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 Door of the Ka`bah

IN PROGRESS 2009-10

Dr. Stephen Lambden (UC-Merced)

 

Ibn al-Kalbī, Abū l-Mundhir Hishām ibn Muḥammad al-Kalbī (d. c. XXX/819).

Kitāb al-Aṣnām (The Book of the Idols).

  • [Kitab al-asnam...  Arabic text 1914., ed. by Ahmad Zaki [Pasha]. Cairo, 1914. 111 pp.

  • Kitāb al-Aṣnām. ed. Ahmad Zaki Pacha, 2nd ed. Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya, 1924/1342. 1v+111pp.

  • http://www.archive.org/details/asnam_kalbi  Online Arabic text (2nd ed.]

  • Rep. Cairo Bibliothčque nationale, 1995. 111-iv pp; arabic text after the unique mss in the bibliothčque Zaki Pacha with French preface and notes by Ahmad Zaki Pacha

  • THE BOOK OF IDOLS BEING A TRANSLATION FROM THE ARABIC OF THE KITAB AL-ASNAM BY HISHAM IBN-AL-KALBI TRANSLATED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY NABIH AMIN FARIS 1952.

  • http://www.answering-islam.org/Books/Al-Kalbi/

  • Kitāb al-Aṣnām, Les idoles de Hicham ibn al-Kalbi, ed. and Fr. trans. W. Atallah, Paris 1969.

 

al-Azraqī = Abi Walīd Muhamad ibn `Abd-Allah ibn Ahmad al-Azraqī (d. XXX/834).

Early Historian of Mecca and surrounds. See J. W. Fück in EI2 vol. 1 :826b :

"... The traditions collected in this book go back in the main to the so-called school of Ibn `Abbas and represent its doctrines and qur'anic exegesis. With regard to the legendary history of Mecca in pre-Islamic times Ibn Ishaq, al-Kalbī and Wahb b. Munabbih are also quoted. The topographical description is in the main the work of Abu 'l-Walīd. Abu 'l-Walīd transmitted the book to the "reader" Abu Muḥammad Isḥāq b. Aḥmad al-öŠuzāī (a descendent of `Umar's governor of Mecca Nāfi` b. `Abd al-Ḥārith) d. 308/921, who made many additions, especially about the renovations of the Ka`ba in 281-4/894-7, and transmitted the book of his grand-nephew Abu 'l-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. Nāfi` al-Khuzā`ī, d. after 350/961 (who made only three additions). This is the text that was printed by Wüstenfeld, Die Chroniken der Stadt Mekka, i, Leipzig 1858. AzraÎī's book was plagiarised c. 272/885-6 by Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al-Fākihī (see Wüstenfeld, op. cit., i, xxiv-xxix and ii, i). It was also utilised by Sa`d al-Dīn Sa`d Allāh b. `Umar al-Isfarā'īnī c. 762/1361 in his Zubdat al-A`māl (see Rieu, Supplement, nr. 575). Al-Kirmānī wrote in 821/1418 a Mukhtasar Ta'rīkh Makka (autograph in Berlin, Ahlwardt no. 9752). " (J. W. Fück  EI 2 vol. 1:826b). 

  • Die Chroniken der Stadt Mekka, (Kitâb Akhbâr Makkah al-Musharrafa), ed. F. Wűstenfeld, Leipzig, 1858.

  • Die Chroniken der Stadt Mekka, ed. Ferdinand Wuestenfeld, Band 1, Leipzig: ADD., 1858

  • Azraqî, Muhammad b. 'Abdallâh,

  • Die Chroniken der Stadt Mekka, (Kitâb Akhbâr Makkah al-Musharrafa), ed. F. Wűstenfeld, Leipzig, 1858.

  • Akhbâr Makkah wa mâ jâ'a fîhî min al-âthâr, ed. Rushdî al-Sâlih,  2nd ed.., Mecca, Dâr al-Thaqâfah, 1965.

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  • Akhbār Makka wa mā jā`a min al-āthār. 2 vols. in 1 ed. Rashidi Salih... Mecca: Dār al-Thaqāfa.  1965 + 6th printing 1414/1994. 437 + 392pp.

  • Akhbār Makka wa mā jā`a min al-āthār. 2 vols. in 1 ed. Rashidi Salih...Mecca: Dār al-Thaqāfa.  6th printing 1414/1994. 437 + 392pp. *

  • Tārikh Makka... 2 vols. Sayyid `Abd al-Fattah / Mustafa Ahmad Baz. Mecca: Maktabat al-Tajariyya.1416/1995 pp. 344 (vol.1) + 843 (vol.2).  *

URLs

Oleg Grabar,

  • `Upon Reading al-Azraqi'  in  Muqarnas, Vol. 3, 1985 (1985), pp. 1-7
     

Abu Bakr ibn Diya'

  • تاريخ مكة المشرفة والمسجد الحرام والمدينة الشريفة والقبر الشريف

  • Tarikh Makka al-sharifa wa'l-masjid al-haram wa'l-Madinah al-Sharifa wa'l-qabr al-sharif. eds. Ayman and `Ala'  Nasr al-Din al-Azhari. Beirut: Dar al-kutub al-`Ilmiyya, 1997. 416pp.

 Ibn Najjar = Hafiz Abi `Abd-Allah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Najjar al-Baghdadi (578-643 AH = XXX-XXX CE).

  • al-Durrat al-thamina fī akhbār al-Madīna. ed Husayn Muhammad `Ali Shukri. Beirut: XXXX., n.d. 183pp.

 

 

The Islamo-biblical Patriarchs and the Hajj rituals.

 

Adam and Eve and Jabal Arafat

Adam and the Ka`bah

Islamo-Biblica and the Ḥajj

http://www.hajinformation.com/main/f.htm

 

The Well of Zamzam

See EI Supp.

 

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Abraham  and the stoning of the Devil near Minā

"The ritual re-enacts Abraham's pilgrimage to Mecca as explained by the Muslim historian al-Azraqi:

When he [Abraham] left Mina and was brought down to (the defile called) al-Aqaba, the Devil appeared to him at Stone-Heap of the Defile. Gabriel said to him: “Pelt him!” so Abraham threw seven stones at him so that he disappeared from him. Then he appeared to him at the Middle Stone-Heap. Gabriel said to him: “Pelt him!” so he pelted him with seven stones so that he disappeared from him. Then he appeared to him at the Little Stone-Heap. Gabriel said to him: “Pelt him!” so he pelted him with seven stones like the little stones for throwing in a sling. So the Devil withdrew from him. [2]

All three jamarat represent the devil: the first and largest represents his temptation of Abraham against sacrificing Ishmael, the second represents the temptation of Abraham's wife Hagar to induce her to stop him, and the third represents his temptation of Ishmael to avoid being sacrificed. He was rebuked each time, and the throwing of the stones symbolizes those rebukes.

 

 

 

 

Abraham, Ishmael and the Dhabih sacrifice

 عيد الأضحى=   `Īd al-Aḍḥā ("The Feast of the Sacrifice") : Abraham and Ishmael and the Dhabih sacrifice

 

 

Islamic and Biblical-Talmudic Law

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bibliographical Miscellany

Burton, J.,

  • 'Law and exegesis: the penalty for adultery in Islam', in G.R. Hawting and A.-KA. Shareef, Approaches to the Qur'an, London, 1993, pp. 269-84.

Wheeler, Brannon M.  

  • Mecca And Eden: Ritual, Relics, And Territory in Islam.   Univ of Chicago Press, 2006  (333pp.)

 

Robin, Christian Julien.

  • "South Arabia, Religions in Pre-Islamic." Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān. ADD