The Meccan Revelations

English library

English introductions and reading tools, with clear links to the primary sources.

Studies

Mercy, receptivity and differing judgements

Reading universal giving alongside particular circumstances and responsibility.

Studies

Distinguishing a speaker’s intention, a reader’s understanding and a warranted conclusion.

Studies

A reading of futuwwa that keeps the owner of each right in view.

Reading paths

Move from an appearing form to the relation in which it is received.

Reading paths

Read descriptions of relation alongside their practical consequences.

Working glossary

In the selected discussion, a relation used to locate events; distinguish it from the moving thing and from a particular measure.

Working glossary

A specified occasion or present condition. In the time essay, it links the general discussion of time to the timing of an act.

Working glossary

The denial of a beginning in speaking of God; not an indefinitely extended duration placed alongside created time.

Working glossary

Read through the appearing form and the faculty receiving it. An image is not automatically a falsehood or an independent object.

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