So it’s been a rather long time but now that I’m back I wanted to pick up on the story of David and Goliath as told in surat al-Baqarah. If you click on the “Quran” tag you’ll be able to see the earlier two entries in this thread. But in quick summary I am recalling […]
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Back to the story of Taloot
Published February 5th, 2007 in Quotes, Quran and Reminiscing. 4 CommentsLast week was a rather slow week for the blog :( . Last weekend was the LTP in Montreal, this weekend was the one at McMaster. Between preparing for these and catching up on work stuff I’m now falling behind again on my emails and on responding to comments. I did get a chance to […]
When the Quran tells the story of David and Goliath, it’s really the story of King Saul. The Quran speaks of Taloot (طالوت), which is the Arabicized name of Saul. Jaloot (جالوت) is the Arabicization of Goliath - it rhymes with Talut, so if you’re just reading along the parallelism that is set up is one of Talut vs. Jaloot - […]
