In a recent essay, I discussed an interpretation of Moses that is not found at all in Judaism or Christianity. In both of those faiths, he is the giver of law and the leader of a national community. He is unable of doing wrong: his people fail, as when they create the golden calf, as do his siblings, but he upholds God’s will to the greatest extent possible.
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The Green One’s Teaching: What Moses Learned from al-Khaḍir
Earlier this year, I spent the month of Ramadan reading the Qurʾan alongside academic essays about Islam in order to better understand the religious faith. What I found surprised me. Rather than have it figured out, we–as Muhammad A. S. Abdel Haleem says–“have to admit collectively that we do not know some very basic things about the Qurʾan–things so basic that the knowledge of them is usually taken for granted by scholars dealing with other texts.”