Michael - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Michael - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Burge, Stephen

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062721
Doc. NO	:	ALei3118
Main Entry	:	Burge, Stephen
Title & Author	:	Michael - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Burge, Stephen
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(885 words)
Abstract	:	Michael (Ar. Mīkāʾīl or Mīkāl) is one of the four archangels (ruʾūs al-malāʾika) named in ḥadīth s and one of two angels named explicitly in the Qurʾān, the other being Gabriel (Ar. Jibrīl). Mīkāʾīl is derived from the Hebrew Mīkāʾel (one like God), but the Hebrew meaning is not carried into Arabic, where the name is meaningless. The ḥadīth and tafsīr (Qurʾānic commentary) literatures occasionally give the meaning of Mīkāʾil as either ʿabd Allāh or ʿubayd Allāh , both meaning servant of God (e.g., al-Rāzī, 1196; al-Suyūṭī,
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei3118.pdf