Allā Wa Koubar in the Byzantine Conception


Tarek M. Muhammad

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24848/islmlg.05.1-2.28

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Abstract


The Byzantine polemicists relate their accounts on al-takbir with the relation between it and the Ka‘ba, the worship of the morning star, the Black Stone, and the head of Aphrodite. This paper will attempt to examine the Byzantine conception of al-Takbīr, which is a part of the Muslimsʼ prayer and the Islamic rituals, in order to highlight how it was perceived by the Byzantines, especially some Byzantinists such as Khoury and Sahas did not discuss this issue in their works. As for the Byzantine sources, the author is not going to make a survey of the polemical Byzantine accounts that spoke about Islam which are outside the scope of this paper. The author only picks up the important and interesting Byzantine accounts, which focused on the elements of the subject of this paper.

Keywords


Byzantium, religious disputes, al-Takbīr, Muslim practices

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24848/islmlg.05.1-2.28