Criticism of the Article “Adam and the Angels, the Study of Mythological Elements in Islamic Mythology”

Abstract

This article reviews the five issues of the article "The Adam and the Angels, the Study of Mythological Elements in Islamic Resources" by the Orientalist Jew, Chipman. Chipman has used Jewish sources and some sources of Sunni sources and concluded that comparing Islamic narrations in Islamic sources with Jewish histories, it is stated that Islamic sources have a more comprehensive mythological inference in this field. Although he seems to have selected traditions from some Sunni sources, this can not be verified due to the review of the citations of the article. In this critique, it is mainly based on narrative narratives and sources of earlier Shiite sources, because Chipman has not been using Shi'i sources and a kind of singularity has been created in his essay. In comparing the arguments based on Shiite interpretations with the views of Chipman and their differentiation points, it has been determined that many of the traditions referred to in the Chipman is not endorsed by the Holy Quran and the infallibles (AS), and these narratives are Israelis and superstitions.

Keywords

• adam
• myth
• creation
• qur'an