The Sword Verse (Arabic: آية السيف, romanized: ayat as-sayf) is the fifth verse of the ninth surah (at-Tawbah) of the Quran (also written as 9:5). It...

as regards the "sword verses" and the "peace verses". According to Matthews, "the question of the proper prioritization of these verses, and how they should...

Quran 73:1. A verse(s) of major importance in Muslim-non-Muslim relations is Quran 9:5 the "Sword verse" (as, to a lesser extent, are similar verses such as...

issued two fatawa in 1996 and 1998. In the 1996 fatwa, he quoted the Sword Verse. In both of these fatawa, bin Laden sharply criticized the financial...

Chapter and verse divisions did not appear in the original texts of Jewish or Christian bibles; such divisions form part of the paratext of the Bible...

Moves" (1976) by Bob Seger, the singer mentions "Living by the Sword" in the third verse. In the song "Five Magics" by Megadeth on their 1990 album Rust...

aggression towards other Muslims, however the sword verses have historically been interpreted to renounce other verses and justify offensive war against unbelievers...

regard to the 'sword verses' and the 'peace verses'". According to Matthews, "the question of the proper prioritization of these verses, and how they should...

the sword while on horseback. The reverse side of the sword and scabbard shows a picture of the Shah on the hilt along with a few lines of verse, and...

appears in a (likely apocryphal) anecdote commonly referred to as "the sword of Damocles", an allusion to the imminent and ever-present peril faced by...

'Peace'", when Muslims were few in number, were replaced with the "Sword verse" 9:29 commanding "Fight those who (do) not believe in Allah and not in...

A longsword (also spelled as long sword or long-sword) is a type of European sword characterized as having a cruciform hilt with a grip for primarily two-handed...

Free verse is an open form of poetry which does not use a prescribed or regular meter or rhyme and tends to follow the rhythm of natural or irregular...

applied only to the People of the Book, while mushrikun, based on the Sword Verse, faced a choice between conversion to Islam and fight to the death, which...

of the 1st century. R. T. France explains the verse, in context with the subsequent verse 35: "The sword Jesus brings is not here military conflict, but...

an apostate and had misinterpreted parts of the Qur'an, including the sword verse. Others have questioned Faraj's religious credentials, pointing out that...

— Quran 9:2-6 9:5 is termed as the Sword Verse. The journalist Arun Shourie has criticized this and many other verses from the Quran contending that the...

principle(s)" (Khaled Abou El Fadl) of Islam, and not abrogated by hadith or the Sword Verse (Q.9:5), and there can be little doubt capital punishment for apostasy...

lacks a royal crown, the sword is thought to have been made before François I became King of France. The guard features a verse from Magnificat, « Fecit...

Certain verses (āyāt) from the Qur'an have been a subject of controversy among scholars. The 216th verse of the Surah, Al-Baqara (The Cow) is about Jihad...

encouraged denunciation of Muslims. ʿIsa also showed to Khubilai the Sword Verse of the Quran, raising the suspicion of the Mongols towards Muslims. According...

the Gospel of Matthew, verse 26:52. The passage depicts a disciple (identified in the Gospel of John as Peter) drawing a sword to defend against the arrest...

In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal device to indicate the underlying metrical structure, as opposed...

The Sword Sung is a 1938 Australian play by Catherine Duncan. The play, a verse drama, helped launch Duncan's career. George Patten, Aboriginal leader...

place and circumstance. The verse (ayah) 256 of Al-Baqara is a very famous verse in the Islamic scripture, the Quran. The verse includes the phrase that...

though in a manner that is equal to the original transgression. The "sword verse", which has attracted attention, is directed against a particular group...

Old Norse poetry encompasses a range of verse forms written in the Old Norse language, during the period from the 8th century to as late as the far end...

killed Ælla and subsequently cutting his back. Sighvatr's skaldic verse: Skaldic verse, a common medium of Norse poets, was meant to be cryptic and allusive...

Look up swords to ploughshares in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Swords to ploughshares (or plowshares) is a concept in which military weapons or technologies...

the Great War. The first verse in both versions invokes Britain (in the 1912 version, anthropomorphised as Britannia with sword and shield; in the second...