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(7) issuing from between the loins [of man] and the pelvic arch [of woman]. | (7) issuing from between the loins [of man] and the pelvic arch [of woman]. | ||
<nowiki>*</nowiki> The plural noun tara'ib, rendered by me as "pelvic arch", has also the meaning of "ribs" or "arch of bones"; according to most of the authorities who have specialized in the etymology of rare Quranic expressions this term relates specifically to female anatomy (Taj al-'Arus).}} | <nowiki>*</nowiki> The plural noun tara'ib, ''''rendered by me''' as "pelvic arch", has also the meaning of "ribs" or "arch of bones"; according to most of the authorities who have specialized in the etymology of rare Quranic expressions this term relates specifically to female anatomy (Taj al-'Arus).}} | ||
Even if Asad’s definition of ''sulb'' as the male loins is accepted, it is a stretch to accept that sexual reproduction is the consequence of a union between the male loins and the female pelvic arch. | Even if Asad’s definition of ''sulb'' as the male loins (in the modern sense of the word loins, rather than its old meaning of the lower back) is accepted, it is a stretch to accept that sexual reproduction is the consequence of a union between the male loins and the female pelvic arch. Asad does not claim ''tara’ib'' means the pelvis, but the pelvic arch which is a specific part of the pelvis. Moreover it is merely his own speculative definition of tara'ib (he says, "rendered by me"). | ||
The | ====Hamza Tzortzis==== | ||
{{Quote||The word tara’ib means breastbone, the ribs or the pelvic arch, and this word according to most authors refers specifically to women.}} | |||
Hamza Tzortzis has an article on his website in which he has misunderstood what Muhammad Asad said, implying that the pelvic arch definition comes from Taj al-Arus, which he cites directly for this claim along with Asad. Hamza has made a mistake, and is even aware of this fact (having withdrawn a lengthy paper with the same claim after it was comprehensively debunked<ref>[http://embryologyinthequran.blogspot.com Embryology in the Qur'an Much Ado about Nothing]</ref>). As pointed out above, pelvic arch is merely Asad's own definiton of the word. | |||
===Moiz Amjad=== | ===Moiz Amjad=== | ||