The Motif of the Angel(s) of Death in Islamic Foundational Sources as an Element of Cultural Diffusion

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dc.contributor.authorProchwicz-Studnicka, Bożena
dc.contributor.authorMrozek, Andrzej
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-28T14:08:03Z
dc.date.available2022-02-28T14:08:03Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe article harks back to the publication entitled “The Motif of the Angel(s) of Death in Islamic Foundational Sources” (VV 38/2 [2020]), which was devoted to the analysis of the eponymous theme in the foundational sources of Islam: the Quran and the sunna of the Prophet Muhammad. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the motif of angel(s) may have been borrowed from two monotheistic traditions that came before. The verification of the thesis that the motif of the angel(s) of death underwent diffusion was carried out in several steps. First, the motif was identified in the textual traditions of Judaism and early Christianity (i.e. sets of texts that were known and, in all likelihood, widespread in the Middle East during the formative period of Islam). As a result of the analysis, most of the themes recognised in the foundational texts of Islam were found. The next step was to identify possible routes of their transmission and percolation into the Islamic tradition, and to determine the “ideological demand” for the motif of the angel(s) of death in the burgeoning Islam. Although Jewish and Christian imagery and beliefs about angels are an important (if not the primary) source of influence on Muslim angelology, there was most likely a two-way interaction between the monotheistic traditions, albeit to a limited extent.pl
dc.identifier.citation"Verbum Vitae", 2021, T. 39, nr 4, s. 1233-1261pl
dc.identifier.doi10.31743/vv.12704
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/2621
dc.language.isoenpl
dc.publisherWydawnictwo KULpl
dc.rightsUznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/*
dc.subjectangelspl
dc.subjectdeathpl
dc.subjectcultural diffusionpl
dc.subjectHebrew Biblepl
dc.subjectintertestamental literaturepl
dc.subjectTalmudpl
dc.subjectChristian Apocryphapl
dc.subjectQuranpl
dc.subjectsunna of the Prophet Muhammadpl
dc.titleThe Motif of the Angel(s) of Death in Islamic Foundational Sources as an Element of Cultural Diffusionpl
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlepl
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