The Qur'an - Translated with a New Introduction - A.J. Droge
59. The Gathering
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
Most of this sūra concerns the expulsion of the disbelievers among the ‘People of the Book’ from their homes and the division of spoils. It concludes with an exhortation to fear God, whose surpassing glory is revealed in his many different epithets. Q59 receives its title from ‘the gathering’ of the disbelievers for exile (Q59.2).