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→‎The Hadith: Have added in a reference to those saying najm can mean any celestial body that emits light - and noted that they do not cite a classical Arabic dictionary to object to this argument. Also made the buruj dictionary citation match the others in Lane's Lexicon.

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→‎Ancient beliefs around stars and meteors pre-Islam: Added a scholarly source (Nicolai Sinia) for pre-Islamic poetry containing this same (incorrect) idea before Muhammad, directly linking it to his immediate environment

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→‎Muslim Poets

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→‎Muslim Historians: Added a section on early post Islamic poetry having the same idea on stars/shooting stars

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→‎The Qur'an

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→‎Islamic literature: Have added a small section on buruj meaning towers/forts/castles etc. as an alternative interpretation.

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→‎Islamic literature: fixing sentence

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→‎The Qur'an: Actually removing the 'separately to stars and flames being used as a protection' part of the sentence, as Ibn Abbas is quoted as this star burning satans (in Ibn Kathirs tafsir here), so is not 100% unrelated in Islamic works.

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→‎Ancient beliefs around stars and meteors pre-Islam: Have added another Quran verse that traditional accounts have written exegesis (in the form of the book of circumstances of revelation) confusing the piercing/illuminating star with a meteor - and linked/cited the sources.

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→‎The Hadith: Added another relevant hadith to this page

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→‎The Hadith: Added in a few minor supporting points and an additional points on stars with sources.

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→‎The Qur'an: Added an explanation of the other Al-Tabari Verse

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→‎Islamic literature: Added in some early commentaries of authors conflating stars and meteors (especially before the differences known by astronomers were widely known to religious scholars) to support interpretation argument.

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→‎The Qur'an: I have linked the analysis done by Crone and other scholars (in the Qur'an Seminar Commentary) on this story to this page.

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→‎The Hadith: A few extra clarifications

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Lightyears moved page WikiIslam:Sandbox/Shooting Stars in the Quran to Shooting Stars in the Quran

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Created page for the sandbox article written by CPO675. I have just tidied up a few things, added lead, image, changed from Decharneux's verse translations to standard ones per guidelines (otherwise would have to be cited properly).