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Repentance and the Return to God: Tawba in Early Sufism. By Atif Khalil. pp. 260. New York, SUNY Press, 2018.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2021
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1 For example, his short comparisons with ‘ancient Hebrew’ words found in the Old Testament (p. 18). Comparing words in the Arabic of the common era and ‘ancient Hebrew’, which normally refers at most to an ancient group of dialects with varied origins and whose linguistic and cultural roots died a long time ago, is rather dicey. Many terms and expressions found in the Torah and its Old Testament version, together which constitute the chief source of that dead ‘language’, are too opaque to allow for drawn-out comparisons, assuming that ‘correct’ pronunciations can be established.