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Isa al-Masih (Jesus Christ): Difference between revisions
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=== The name ʿĪsā === | === The name ʿĪsā === | ||
The name ʿĪsā does not appear to be the Arabised version of Jesus's (real) Hebrew name ''Yeshuaʿ'', Nickel (2017) notes ''The first thing the reader of the Qurʾān notices in reading the Arabic text of the Qurʾānic material about Jesus is that he is not called Yasūʿ, as one might expect from the Semitic milieu, but rather ʿĪsā. In terms of the Arabic root letters, the ʿayn and yāʾ seem to have switched positions.''<ref>Nickel, Gordon D. “''Jesus in the Qur'an.” pp. 289.'' The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an, Second Edition, 2017, pp. 288–302.</ref> | The name ʿĪsā does not appear to be the Arabised version of Jesus's (real) Hebrew name ''Yeshuaʿ'', Nickel (2017) notes ''The first thing the reader of the Qurʾān notices in reading the Arabic text of the Qurʾānic material about Jesus is that he is not called Yasūʿ, as one might expect from the Semitic milieu, but rather ʿĪsā. In terms of the Arabic root letters, the ʿayn and yāʾ seem to have switched positions.''<ref>Nickel, Gordon D. “''Jesus in the Qur'an.” pp. 289.'' The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an, Second Edition, 2017, pp. 288–302.</ref> | ||
This is not the only obscure Christian-related name in the Qur'an; for the name "Christians" itself, rather than using ''masīḥiyyūn'' (the self-identifying name of Arabic-speaking Christians as one would expect, derived from the Greek ''kristianoi'' and Syriac ''mshīḥāyē'' or ''krīstyānē'') the Qur’an consistently refers to Christians as ''naṣārā''.<ref name=":0">Reynolds, Gabriel Said. 2025. ''Christianity and the Qur'an: The Rise of Islam in Christian Arabia (pp. 2-3).'' Yale University Press. Kindle Edition.</ref> This term appears connected to Jesus’s hometown, Nazareth (''al-nāṣira'' in Arabic), and is also employed in a disparaging sense for Jesus’s followers in the Book of Acts 24, and in certain post-biblical pre-Islamic sources.<ref name=":0" /> | |||
== The Messiah (al-Masīḥ) == | == The Messiah (al-Masīḥ) == | ||