02 September 2018



"The Qur'an, dating from the seventh century CE, resembled early Christian texts in its identification of Satan (or Iblis) as the proud, deceitful angel who lured the first humans into desobedience. Later commentators specified that the form the malicious tempter took was not a serpent but a particularly beautiful camel: 'She had a multicoloured tail, red, yellow, green, white, black, a mane of pearl, hair of topaz, eyes like the planets Venus and Jupiter, and an aroma like musk and ambergris'" (Stephen Greenblatt - The Rise and Fall Of Adam & Eve)

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