The Qur'an - Translated with a New Introduction - A.J. Droge
113. The Daybreak
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).
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The final two sūras of the Qur’ān are known as the ‘sūras of taking refuge.’ The first is an apotropaic prayer to ward off magic.