96. Pre-Islamic Arabia, with Valentina Grasso
Byzantium & Friends
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The History of Monotheism in the Quran
Valentina: I think it's very difficult to identify this kind of language as being either monotheistic or whatever when the terms are so vague. In classical Greek, you could use the term of theos, the god, just by itself, generically, to refer to any god,. and you find this so I can play it all the time. And Allah, I seem to think, kind of functions that way. It's sort of the god you might have a particular one in mind or it's that one or... Yeah, no, it's... This actually makes me think if it's a cautious monotheism just to us or to them to, you know,
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