SCHOLARS (ULAMA) OF JEWISH PEOPLE

(ʻULAMᾹʼU BANĪ ISRᾹʼĪL – عُلَمَاءُ بَنيِ إِسْرَايِلَ)

Authors

  • Enes Karić Fakultet islamskih nauka Univerziteta u Sarajevu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26340/muallim.v23i91.1951

Keywords:

scholars, learned people, ʻulamāʼ, Jews, Islam, ʻilm, knowledge

Abstract

UDK: 28-23-254

The Qur’an uses the term ʻulamāʼ (عُلَمَاءُ) only in two places, once in the surah the Poets/Ash-Shuʻarā (26:197), where it is used as ‘ulamaʼ banī Isrāʼīl meaning “the learned/‘ulamaʼ of the Jewish people”, and the second time in surah the Creator/Fāṭir (35:28), where the word ʻulamāʼ (عُلَمَاءُ) is used in a more general sense to mean as “the learned (among the mankind) who truly fear God”. This article deals with the syntagm ʻulamaʼ banī isrāʼīl (“the learned/ulama of the Jewish people“) reflecting some commentaries and translations of the Qur’an.

Published

16-11-2022

How to Cite

Karić, E. (2022). SCHOLARS (ULAMA) OF JEWISH PEOPLE: (ʻULAMᾹʼU BANĪ ISRᾹʼĪL – عُلَمَاءُ بَنيِ إِسْرَايِلَ). Novi Muallim, 23(91), 15–17. https://doi.org/10.26340/muallim.v23i91.1951