PEOPLE OF THE BOOK
PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES

Ar: Ahl al-Kitab.

It is the common term by which the Qur'an denotes Jews and Christians since the most important fact about them is that God had given them "the book", see SCRIPTURE.

How much respect the Qur'an really has for the People of the Book is, however, ambiguous, see UNBELIEVERS.


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