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alusur-10320	Lindstedt, Ilkka	Reconsidering Islām and Dīn in the Medinan Qurʾan	2023-03-21	19	.pdf	application/pdf	10244	532	64	However, here, too, al-islām translates effortlessly as “obedience.” My rendering of the words al-islām dīnan as “obedience as regards law” is, then, not a resort to special pleading but quite ordinary in the context of Qurʾanic Arabic.46 Considering the widespread impression among modern scholars and translators that Qurʾan 5:3 refers to and indeed explicitly names a religion known as Islam, it might be informative to note what the classical exegete al-Ṭabarī has to say about the phrase al-islām dīnan.	cache/alusur-10320.pdf	txt/alusur-10320.txt