The Tawrat

The Tawrāt in Islamic conception is the book revealed to Mūsā; Aḥmad Amīn calls it "the most important source of Jewish culture," noted in the Qur'an and described as a book of guidance and light ¹.

Ahmad Amin notes that the Qur'an spells out certain rulings that occur in the Torah, such as retaliation, and that the hadiths referred to it and mentioned some of its rulings ². In his chapter on Jewish culture he reviews the Torah's divisions, order and dating among modern scholars, setting it beside the other revealed books in the Islamic imagination ³.

• Text from the harvested Ḍuḥā l-Islām of Aḥmad Amīn (Hindawi edition): the Jewish-culture chapter, pp. 298–306. The modern encyclopedist treats the Torah as a historian, not an exegete; his Qur'an and hadith references mark the Islamic conception rather than quoting it verbatim. The card also files a tafsīr source (Tanzil Qur'an) not yet read independently; this page rests on Ahmad Amin's cited passage alone.