Story of Adam’s Creation and His Adventures in The Holy Quran

Document Type : Research Article

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Theology, University of Isfahan

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Theology, University of Isfahan.

3 Master of Quranic and Hadith Sciences, University of Isfahan

Abstract

Different viewpoints about man’s creation, according to various narrations, have created many issues inside and even outside the field of religion. Any attempt to understand all the aspects of this story and to get informed of the secrets of man’s creation, despite being very interesting, is very difficult.
Recognizing the order of pivotal elements of this story and specifying its beginning and end is not simple. After an overview on the historical backgrounds of the Creation, this text is determined to work on the concept of reality and allegory in the story of Adam’s creation and its different parts like: God’s speaking with angels, Vicegerency, question of angels and God’s answer, teaching of the divine names to Adam and angels, angels’ prostration and Satan’s avoidance, Adam’s dwelling in heaven, the forbidden tree, Adam’s fall, perception of the divine words by Adam and God’s acceptance of Adam’s repentance and etc have been studied.
It must be said that the study of context has a decisive role in perceiving the concept of each of the elements mentioned above, since the real meaning of that could better come out by considering the relationship of these parts. The conclusion obtained from this research expresses the fact that the Creation’s story and Adam’s adventures in the Quran contain many deep philosophical and mystical concepts and its style of explanation is allegorical, in a way that the internal structure of the story is representative of reality, but its composition and explanation is like an event and in allegorical form.

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Quran and Hadith Studies‎
Volume 5, Issue 1 - Serial Number 9
January 2020
Pages 27-52

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