What the Koran says about Israel

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday May 08, 2002 04:29 by Keith Davies - Writer

What Arab scholars of Islam said say about the 'zionist entity'

. Jewish Roots in the Koran Text:

Did you know that long before the state of Israel ever came into existence, Islam's most famous exegete felt that its borders should be
far more extensive than the present miniscule area of land it now occupies?
And that if Muslims were to listen to him, there would be no such talk of "occupied territories"? several scholars Here is Abu Ja'far Muhammad al-Tabari (died 922) gives several opinions of the Israel as referred to in the Koran:
(1) Sinai and surrounding area
(2) Greater Syria (i.e. Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and part of Iraq).
(3) Others said: jericho.
(4) Damascus, Palestine and some of Jordan

And no! This quote does not come from some doctored edition of the classical text that has been prepared by pro-Israel extremists. It comes from the Arabic translation of "Jami al yan 'an ta'wil aay al qur'aan" , published in 1961 in Egypt by the Dar al Ma'arif.
(Vol 10, p. 167-9).