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This Master’s thesis explores the major Sufi and Shia scholars’ views of Iblīs – one of the two Qur’anic names for the Devil – views rooted in the traditional and orthodox Islamic understandings of the fall of Iblīs and the Ḥallājian-Sufi tradition built around the defense of Ib…

This thesis explores the application of reader-response criticism, specifically that of Wolfgang Iser, to Qur'anic narrative. The narratives in question are the seven different renditions of the Iblis story. Commentary on the Qur'an traditionally approaches the text atomisticall…