The Qurʾān - A New Annotated Translation - Arthur Droge
105 The Elephant ۞ Al-Fīl
The Qurʾān - A New Annotated Translation - Arthur Droge
A. J. Droge [+]
A. J. Droge is the author of Homer or Moses? Early Christian Interpretations of the History of Culture and, with James Tabor, of A Noble Death: Suicide and Martyrdom among Christians and Jews in Antiquity.
Description
This sūra is said to refer to an attack on Mecca by Abraha, the Christian Abyssinian ruler of Yemen.