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The Forbidden Tree and the Jinn: A Modern Interpretation Kindle Edition
The legends of the Forbidden Tree and the Fall of Adam are central to the story of the creation of humanity’s primogenitors not only in the Quran but also in the Bible. However, the meaning and significance of these stories have not yet been rationally elucidated. Islamic scholars, imams and the so-called sheiks cannot shed much scholarly light to further our understanding of these topics as they almost never go beyond rehashing what is written in the traditional sources. Likewise, Judaic and Christian authorities have not advanced any rationally satisfactory (non-arbitrary) explanations for these narrations. In fact, studying the contemporary Abrahamic religious, cultural, and self-proclaimed scientific expositions on these subjects is an example of obscurum per obscurius.
I present two bold ideas in this book pertaining to these topics, each groundbreaking in its own right, but complementary to one another:
- I propound a novel interpretation of the Forbidden Tree and the Fall of Adam archetypes. I decipher the true meaning behind the Quranic (and hence the Biblical) account of Adam and Eve eating from this “forbidden tree,” exposing their private parts, incurring the punishments of having to constantly struggle for survival, and of being “enemies” with other living beings and shedding blood. This interpretation also naturally resolves another age-old Islamic enigma of God teaching Adam “the names of all things.”
- I show that the concepts of jinn and devils do not refer to supernatural beings, as traditionally assumed, but rather to tangible beings that are all important for the biosphere and human health and wellbeing.
The interpretation that I have developed of these motifs is strictly based on a close-reading of the Quran and the Hadith with the help of physics, microbiology, microbial ecology, biogeochemistry and the fast-emerging science of microbiota.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMay 10, 2023
- File size4577 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B0C4Y2Y2HC
- Publisher : Cerulean Sky Press (May 10, 2023)
- Publication date : May 10, 2023
- Language : English
- File size : 4577 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 233 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,713,958 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,746 in Christian Hermeneutics
- #1,945 in Religious Studies - Science & Religion
- #4,185 in Islam (Kindle Store)
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About the author
Serkan Zorba attended Hacettepe University (Ankara, Turkey) from 1992 to 1997 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics as valedictorian in the Department of Engineering Physics and as salutatorian in the Faculty of Engineering. He then went on to obtain, with full tuition and scholarship, his master's and doctorate degrees in physics from the University of Rochester.
Since 2004, Dr. Zorba has been a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Whittier College.
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