Mecca, the famous sacred city of Islam where the equally famous “Ka’bah” is located, to which all the Muslim pilgrims of the world flock, is mentioned in the Qur’an only once (in the form “makkah”),…
Tag: Aramaic
“Hapax legomenon” is an expression in Greek for the (rather rare) linguistic phenomenon in which a word appears only once in a text. However, the number of “hapax legomenon” in the Koran is unique: several…