The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

Index
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Hud (prophet) (cont.):
encouragement to Muhammad
136,
139–40
Hudaybiyya (treaty) xxxvii, 
334–7, 368
humble, commendation
211
Hunayn (battle) xxxvii, 
118
hunting: during the pilgrimage
67;
forbidden during the pilgrimage
77
Husayn (son of 
 Ali) xiii
husbands, property shares
51
hypocrites: alliances with forbidden
58–9; bad behaviour censured 266,
271; and believers, divisions between
on the Day of Judgement
360;
condemnation for joking about God
122; criticisms 374; failure to support
Muhammad leads to censure
116; fate
331; intrigues 50; judgement 63–4;
Medinan hypocrites condemned
334;
muna
fiqun  xviii; response to God’s
guidance
4
ibl
419 n. b
Iblis, see Satan
Ibn
 Abbas 215 n. c
Ibn Mandhur xxxiii
Ibn Taymiyya, intertextuality in the
Qur
 an xxx
Ibn Ubayy (head of the ‘hypocrites’ of
Medina)
365, 366
 idina 165 n. b
idle talk, condemnation
122
idolaters
116–17, 119; attempts to
persuade Muhammad to worship their
gods
441; castigation 209, 210, 213,
214; condemnation, for denying God’s
bounty
166–7, 169; Medinan idolaters
condemned
334, 336
idolatry x, 
62, 76; Abraham condemns
205–6, 253, 287, 317; condemnation
207, 259; refuted in face of God’s
power and creation
277–8, 279–80;
rejection
234–5, 237; to be avoided
158, 160–1
Idris: grace
193; prophetic status 207
iftah
442 n. a
ihram (consecration)
22 n. d
ikhlas
444
 Illiyyin 413
iltifat  xx, xxxv
impurity, avoidance when praying
55
 Imran, family 34, 37
infanticide: female
169, 411 n. a; as a
result of the fear of poverty, forbidden
177
inheritances
50, 51, 54, 66;
misappropriation condemned
420
insan
420 n. g
insects: ants, and Solomon
239, 240;
bees, activity as evidence of God’s
inspiration
166, 170
interfaith relations xxiv–xxv
international relations xviii
intertextuality xxx
intoxicants and intoxication
24, 55, 76–7,
96 n. c
Iram, tyranny condemned
420
iron
359, 361
Isaac (Abraham’s son)
15, 161, 193, 206,
253; birth prophesied 141, 163–4, 254;
devotion to God
292; God’s guidance
86
Ishmael (Abraham’s son)
15, 18 n. a, 161;
builds the mosque in Mecca
17 n. a;
God’s guidance
86; goodness 292;
grace
193; prophetic status 207;
sacri
fice 287
Islam: acceptance by Meccans xxxvii;
conversions, attempts to prevent
331;
nature xxiv; spread xiii, xxxvii
Islamic arts and sciences, basis in the
Qur
 an ix
Isma
 il (seventh imam) xiii
istifham inkari
7 n. b
ittaka
a 345 n. e
Jacob xvii, 
145–6, 149, 151, 193, 206, 253;
birth prophesied
141; God’s guidance
86; obedience to God 15, 292
jaza
 118 n. e
Jerusalem xi; Night Journey xxxvii, 
175;
prayers towards
14 n. a
Jesus xvii, 
371; birth and mission 34, 37,
37–9; Christian beliefs in his divinity
seen as false
69; confirmation of the
Torah
72; creation by God 217;
disownment of Christian claims on the
Day of Judgement
78–9; divinity
denied
75, 119, 133, 191, 192, 316,
318–19; divisions among his people
370; as encouragement to believers to
be mindful of God
359, 361; foretells
the coming of Muhammad under the
name of Ahmad
370; God’s guidance
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86; as prophet 11, 29, 66; receipt of the
same message as that given to
Muhammad
312; renunciation of
claims to divinity
67; as a sign for all
people
207; as son of God xxxiii;
taken by God 
65
Jews and Judaism x; belief in
Muhammad
255 n. a; criticized for
spiritual presumption
372; dietary
regulations
91, 174; distortion of the
Scriptures
55–6; granted tolerance
xii; as People of the Book xviii, and
Islamic relations with xxiv–xxv, xxxvii;
pledges from God and relations with
Muslims
67, 68, 69–76; refusal to enter
the holy land during the exodus
wanderings
70; relations with
Muslims
34, 39–41; see also Children
of Israel; People of the Book