Gentiles __socratesPageHistoryEdit Visual Text GENTILES Arabic Ummi امي (from umm, "a mother") pl. ummiyan, lit. "Ignorant as new-born babes." Hebrew . According to al-Baizawi, all the people of the earth who do not possess a Divine Book. In the Qur'an, the term is specially applied to the idolaters of Arabia. Surah lxii. 2: "He (God) it is who sent unto the Gentiles a Prophet, amongst them to recite to them His signs and to purify them. And to teach them the Book, the wisdom, although they were before in obvious error." Based on <a href="https://www.juancole.com/library/dictionary-of-islam-hughes">Hughes, Dictionary of Islam</a> CancelTweetShareRedditEmail
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