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Was Abraham Crazy? Understanding His Attempted Sacrifice through Ibn Hazm’s Theory of Prophecy

By Younus Y. Mirza // July 15, 2021July 16, 2021

When I was speaking at the Jewish Museum of Berlin on the Story of Abraham’s/Ibrāhīm’s sacrifice in the Islamic tradition, a protestant minister on one of the panels stood up and passionately argued that Abraham/Ibrāhīm…

Depicting Abraham’s Sacrifice: Differing Biblical and Islamic Textual Traditions

By Younus Y. Mirza // June 6, 2018

The story of the intended sacrifice is an integral part of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, or the “Abrahamic faiths.”[1] For Jews, the story lays the basis for “an exclusive covenantal relationship with God.”[2] Abraham’s intended…