The Qur'an - Translated with a New Introduction - A.J. Droge
61. The Lines
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 consists of several short passages. Notable among them is a section on Israel’s opposition to Moses, Jesus, and finally the Prophet, whose coming (under the name of ‘Aḥmad’) Jesus is said to have predicted. Q61 takes its title from the reference to troops drawn up in battle ‘lines’ (Q61.4).