‘Amr Ibn Ḥazm Al-Anṣārī and Qurʾān 2,256: “No Compulsion is there in Religion”
‘Amr ibn Hazm of the Najjār was a young boy when the Prophet Muḥammad came to Medina. From a remark made several decades later by an angry aristocratic woman it may be concluded that ‘Amr was raised as a Jew by the Jewish Banū l-Naḍīr. When they were expelled from Medina, ‘Amr, then a body of eleven...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1996
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Oriens
Year: 1996, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-64 |
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| Summary: | ‘Amr ibn Hazm of the Najjār was a young boy when the Prophet Muḥammad came to Medina. From a remark made several decades later by an angry aristocratic woman it may be concluded that ‘Amr was raised as a Jew by the Jewish Banū l-Naḍīr. When they were expelled from Medina, ‘Amr, then a body of eleven, went with them. He later returned to Medina and at seventeen became the Prophet’s governor in Najrān. |
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| ISSN: | 1877-8372 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Oriens
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18778372-03501004 |
