{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_sbe09_027_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_sbe09_027_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_sbe09_027_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/sbe09/027.htm","summary":"This is a partial English translation of Surah An-Naml (Chapter 27) from the Qur'an, drawn from E.H. Palmer's 1880 translation published in the Sacred Books of the East series \u2014 a landmark Victorian scholarly project that rendered major world religious texts into English. The passage covers several narrative sequences central to Islamic scripture: Moses receiving divine revelation at the burning bush and being given miraculous signs for Pharaoh; Solomon's dominion over humans, jinn, and animals (including the famous episode of the ant's warning and the hoopoe bird's report about the Queen of Sheba); and briefer accounts of the prophets Salih among the Thamud and Lot among his people. The Surah then shifts into a rhetorical section of repeated challenges \u2014 \"Is there a god with God?\" \u2014 arguing for God's sole creative and sustaining power against polytheism, and closes with eschatological warnings about resurrection, judgment, and a beast that will emerge in the last days. Palmer's translation reflects 19th-century Orientalist philological conventions: accurate but archaic in diction, with footnotes identifying biblical parallels (e.g., noting Sheba's Arabian location). Readers coming to this text will find it most valuable as a historical artifact of how Western scholarship engaged Islamic scripture, rather than as a contemporary or community-authorized translation.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Qur'\u00e2n, ed. Palmer (SBE9): XXVII. The Chapter o...","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":2355}