英语词汇“people of the book”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

People of the Book n. [after Arabic ahl al-kitāb < ahl people + al- the + kitāb book (see Kitab n.)] a body or community whose religion entails adherence to a book of divine revelation; spec. (mainly) Jews and Christians as regarded in Muslim thought.Quot. 1697 is apparently based on a misunderstanding of the phrase.

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1697 H. Prideaux True Nature Imposture in Life Mahomet 37 The Men of Mecca were called the Illiterate, in opposition to the People of Medina, who being the one half Christians, and the other half Jews, were able to write and read; and therefore were called the People of the Book.

1834 A. Burnes Trav. Bokhara I. x. 313 The Vizier took a cup, and said, ‘You must drink with us; for you are people of the book, better than the Russians.’

1861 J. M. Rodwell tr. Koran 635 O people of the Book! now hath our Apostle come to you to clear up to you The cessation of Apostles.

a1936 R. Kipling Something of Myself (1937) viii. 224 It is true the Children of Israel are ‘people of the Book’, and in the second Surah of the Koran Allah is made to say: ‘High above mankind have I raised you.’

1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) vii. 85 When Islam eventually became a religion of the book, other ‘people of the book’, Christians and Jews, were specifically excluded from the operations of the holy war, jihad.

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