Baizawi said, "Idris was of the posterity of Seth and a forefather of Noah, and his name was Enoch Ar | During his lifetime all the people were not yet Muslims |
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Affifi, Mystical Philosophy of Ibn Arabi, Cambridge, 1939, 21, 110• 344: "It probably originated as a term in ancient Hebrew for "interpreter" |
Identification [ ] Enoch [ ] and - seventeenth-century icon, Historic Museum in Sanok, Poland Idris is generally accepted to be the same as , the who lived in the | "A faceless prophet," writes the Islamicist , "Hermes possesses no concrete or salient characteristics, differing in this regard from most of the major figures of the Bible and the Quran |
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Later Muslim sources, those of the eighth century, began to hold that Idris had two names, "Idris" and "Enoch," and other sources even stated that "Idris' true name is Enoch and that he is called Idris in because of his devotion to the study of the sacred books of his ancestors and | Angels A to Z By James R |
The commentator narrated that he was the first man to write with a pen and that he was born when Adam still had 308 years of his life to live.
22As translator says in note 2508 of his translation of the : Idris is mentioned twice in the Quran, viz | Many early commentators, such as , credited Idris with possessing great and |
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Because of this and other parallels, traditionally Idris has been identified with the biblical Enoch, and Islamic tradition usually places Idris in the early , and considers him one of the oldest prophets mentioned in the Quran, placing him between and | Rosenthal, i, 229, 240, n |