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Satanic Verses
Retracted false revelation in Islamic tradition
Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses are words of "Satanic suggestion", which the Islamic prophet Muhammad by some accounts mistook for divine revelation in an alleged incident. The first use of the expression in English is attributed to Sir William Muir in 1858. Whether the incident ever actually occurred is highly debated and many reject it as apocryphal. According to early prophetic biographies of Muhammad by al-Waqidi, Ibn Sa'd and the tafsir of al-Tabari, Muhammad was manipulated by Satan (Iblis) to praise the three chief pagan Meccan goddesses – al-Lat, al-'Uzza, and Manat – while preaching Islam to an audience in Mecca. Religious authorities recorded the story for the first two centuries of the Islamic era. The words of praise for the pagan deities allegedly elicited by Satanic temptation are known as the Satanic Verses. A version of this episode, in which Muhammad does not issue the purported verses, takes place in surah 53 of the Quran. Strong objections to the historicity of the Satanic Verses...
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