The Qur'an - Translated with a New Introduction - A.J. Droge
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The Qur'an - Translated with a New Introduction - A.J. Droge
A.J. Droge [+]
A. J. Droge is the translator of The Qur’an: A New Annotated Translation (Equinox, 2013), and the author of Homer or Moses? Early Christian Interpretations of the History of Culture and A Noble Death: Suicide and Martyrdom among Christians and Jews in Antiquity (with J.D. Tabor).
Description
This sūra begins with a reference to several previous peoples who dismissed the threat of impending punishment and were destroyed. It then describes the terror of the Last Day and Judgment, and concludes with God affirming the truth of the Qur’ān. Its title comes from its first word.