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| − | * '''ansar:''' (''Arabic'') helper, aider, patron → in the history of Islam, the ''Ansar'' were those inhabitants of Medina who welcomed and aided Mohammed and the ''Muhajirun'' (emigrants) who fled with him from Mecca in 622 | + | * '''ansar:''' (''Arabic'') helper, aider, patron → in the history of Islam, the ''Ansar'' were those inhabitants of Medina who welcomed and aided Mohammed and the ''Muhajirun'' (emigrants) who fled with him from Mecca in 622 → J. S. Atherton comments that according to Thomas Patrick Hughes, whose ''Dictionary of Islam'' Joyce is known to have consulted, the ''Ansars'' were Mohammed's amanuenses, who wrote down the words of the [[Koran]] from the illiterate Mohammed's dictation → cf. [[Page-425|FW 425.18-20]], in which [[Shaun]] contemplates using a similar method to write the ''Book of Lief'' |
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansar Wikipedia] | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansar Wikipedia] | ||
| + | ** [http://www.answering-islam.org/Books/Hughes/index.htm Dictionary of Islam] | ||
* '''answers''' | * '''answers''' | ||
Revision as of 05:15, 7 July 2007
- ansar: (Arabic) helper, aider, patron → in the history of Islam, the Ansar were those inhabitants of Medina who welcomed and aided Mohammed and the Muhajirun (emigrants) who fled with him from Mecca in 622 → J. S. Atherton comments that according to Thomas Patrick Hughes, whose Dictionary of Islam Joyce is known to have consulted, the Ansars were Mohammed's amanuenses, who wrote down the words of the Koran from the illiterate Mohammed's dictation → cf. FW 425.18-20, in which Shaun contemplates using a similar method to write the Book of Lief
- answers
- ansa: (Italian) riverbend
