Cain and Abel - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Cain and Abel - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Tottoli, Roberto

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061188
Doc. NO	:	ALei1585
Main Entry	:	Tottoli, Roberto
Title & Author	:	Cain and Abel - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Tottoli, Roberto
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,774 words)
Abstract	:	Cain and Abel (Ar. Qābīl wa-Hābīl) are the two sons of Adam and Eve hinted at in a Qurʾānic passage exhorting the Prophet to recite the story of two sons of Adam (Q 5:27). Each brother offered a sacrifice, but the offering of only one of them was accepted, because the other was not God-fearing. The latter promised to kill the former (Q 5:28–9) and did so (Q 5:30). Then God sent a raven that dug up the earth to show him how to
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1585.pdf