(The Baha’i Faith: Doctrinal and Historical Explorations, Editors - Moojan Momen, Zackery Mirza Heern)
Covenant is a major theme in the Quran
Covenant is a major theme in the Qur'an, a book which may certainly be read as a summons to a renewal of the so-called Abrahamic covenant. There is no space here to treat the topic at anything near the length it deserves. For its importance in Sunni Islam there is a growing library of specialized studies (al-Qadı 2006; Lumbard 2015; Jaffer 2021). Its importance in Sufism has long been an object of excellent scholarship (Ritter 2003; Böwering 1980). However, the literature on the covenant in Shi'ism is rather under-developed. This is ironic, because it may be in Shi'ism that the divine institution of the covenant is most emphasized. According to Shi'ism, it was precisely a violation of the renewed ancient covenant, through Muhammad, that caused the division of the early Muslim community into competing, sometimes fractious and definitely fissiparous Islamicate sub-identities. It was a breaking of the covenant, in the first place, that cruelly violated the divine message of unity which Muhammad had been sent to proclaim and about which the Qur'an is so eloquent and insistent.
(The Baha’i Faith: Doctrinal and Historical Explorations, Editors - Moojan Momen, Zackery Mirza Heern)
(The Baha’i Faith: Doctrinal and Historical Explorations, Editors - Moojan Momen, Zackery Mirza Heern)
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