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inlibration

inlibration noun: the fact of God's being invested in a book (the Qur'an), as opposed to in flesh as held by Christianity.

Noun

inlibration (uncountable)

  1. The fact of God's being invested in a book (the Qur'an), as opposed to in flesh as held by Christianity.
    • Consequently, […] the question arises in our mind whether […] there was not also in Islam a controversy over the inlibration, that is, the embookment, of the pre-existing Koran in the revealed Koran and also over the problem of whether the revealed Koran had two natures, a divine and a man-made, or...1976, Harry Austryn Wolfson, The Philosophy of the Kalam, page 146
    • The Prophet had to be a vessel unstained by external knowledge for the Word's inlibration, just as Mary had to be virgin in order to be a pure vessel for the Word's incarnation.1992, Annemarie Schimmel, Islam: An Introduction, page 75

Origin of inlibration

Coined by Harry A Wolfson (1887–1974) on the model of incarnation, from in- + inflected stem of Latin liber (“book”) + -ation.

Questions about inlibration

What does inlibration mean?
Inlibration means the fact of God's being invested in a book (the Qur'an), as opposed to in flesh as held by Christianity.
What part of speech is inlibration?
Inlibration is a noun.

Words near inlibration in the dictionary

  1. inlet valves
  2. inleted
  3. inlets
  4. inletting
  5. inlettings
  6. inlibration
  7. inlier
  8. inlierness
  9. inliers
  10. inlight
  11. inlighted

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