ar-Raqim

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Ar-Raqim ( Arabic الرقيم, DMG ar-raqīm ) is an Arabic expression that is used in the Koran in Sura 18 : 9 in the introduction to a variant of the legend of the seven sleepers and which is controversially interpreted, e.g. a .:

  • As the name of the dog that guarded the cave in which the seven saints sought refuge. In other traditions the dog is called Qitmir.
  • As the place name of their place of origin or their place of refuge, which is then not assumed to be in Ephesus but, among other things, near Amman .
  • As the name of a stone or lead plaque placed in front of the cave, on which the names and the history of the cave-mates, in this tradition different from the seven sleepers, were written down.
  • As a result of the reading out of the name of her persecutor Decius , whose name in Aramaic or Syriac transcription was misinterpreted in the way of the report to Mohammed.

literature

  • James A. Bellamy: Al-Raqim or al Ruqud? A Note on Surah 18: 9 , in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 111 (1991), pp. 115-117.
  • Sidney Griffth: Christian Lore and the arabic Qur'an , The “Companions of the Cave” in Surat al-Kahf and in Syriac Christian tradition, in: Gabriel Said Reynolds (ed.): The Qur'an in its historical context, Routledge , New York 2008, pp. 109-138, esp. 125-127.
  • Rudi Paret : Aṣḥāb al-Kahf , in: Encyclopaedia of Islam 2. A., Brill, Leiden-London, Vol. 1 (1960), p. 691 (lit.!).
  • CC Torrey: Three Difficult Passages in the Koran, in: TW Arnold / RA Nicholson (eds.): A Volume of Oriental Studies presented to Edward G. Browne, CUP, Cambridge 1922, 457-59.
  • R. Tottoli: Art. Raqim , in: JD McAuliffe: Encyclopedia of the Quran , Vol. 4, Brill, Leiden 2004, pp. 351f.
  • Wolfram Waldner: How did the dog get into the legend of the dormouse? In: O. Jastrow, S. Talay, H. Hafenrichter (eds.): Studies in Semitic and Arabic Studies: Festschrift for Hartmut Bobzin for his 60th birthday. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 423-430.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About it reported u. a. Baiḍāwī ; see. the summary in François Jourdan: La tradition des Sept Dormants: une rencontre entre chrétiens et musulmans , Maisonneuve & Larose, Paris 2001, ISBN 2706815000 , p. 82f.
  2. ↑ Michael Huber: Die Wanderlegende von den Siebenschläfern , Otto Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1910, p. 222ff., P. 236ff .; Further literature from Hans Eberhard Mayer : The Crusader Rule Montréal (Šōbak) , Jordan in the 12th Century, Treatises of the German Palestine Association 14, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3447029889 , p. 162
  3. ↑ Michael Huber: Text contributions to the dormouse legend of the Middle Ages , in: Romanische Forschungen 26 (1909), pp. 462–583, pp. 825–836, here p. 548
  4. ↑ Torrey 1922, against it: Josef Horovitz : Koranische investigations , Berlin - Leipzig 1926, p. 95; in agreement with Horovitz: Paret 1960; partly still represented, u. a. slightly varied from C. Luxenburg, cf. Griffith 2008.