The Qibla: An Allusion to the Shemaʿ | Professor Abdulla Galadari

In this presentation, based on an article, it is argued that the Qibla passages in the Qurʾan, which are commonly understood as referring to the direction of the prayer, are directly engaging with and interpreting the Shemaʿ passages in Deuteronomy and their Talmudic commentaries. By defining and applying the method of intertextual polysemy, nine points of intertextuality are identified between the various Quranic, Biblical, and Talmudic passages. Against this background, the article implies that narrations from traditional Quranic commentaries are lacking in their interpretation of these passages, since they do not employ any extra-Quranic contexts to explain their meaning. Through the method of intertextual polysemy, the alternative thesis propounded here is that the historical reference for the Qibla passages is the Shemaʿ.
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Some fascinating points. Yet If the Qibla is about the Shema and the Quran is affirming it then what is the changing of the qibla all about? Also I'd be interested in the brothers take on the Qibla in reference to Moses and the israelites in egypt. When they are told to take their homes as qiblas.