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The article shows how the structure of Ancient West Asian covenants, which structures for example the Biblical covenant between Yahweh and the Hebrew people at Sinai, is also behind the structure of the important story of the killing of Husayn ibn Ali's killing at Karbala in 680 CE.
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The article demonstrates that ideas from Sumerian and Akkadian times, whic are also attested in the Hebrew Bible, have found their way to the Islamic world many hundred years later.
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This page is a summary of: The hand of God is over their hands (Q. 48:10): On the Notion of Covenant in al-Ṭabarī's Account of Karbala, Journal of Qur anic Studies, June 2016, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/jqs.2016.0239.
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