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The Seveners (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Resurrection 03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices 03.02 Cult of Ištar 03.02.01 Doctrine of salvation 03.02.01.13 Resurrection Seven planetary gods 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.04 Concept of god (1) 01.04.03 Plurality of god (polytheism) 01.04.03.06 Seven planetary gods	Keywords paganism stars
Period 12th century CE	Channel Islamic philosophers and scholars

Text
Abu’l Faraj Ibn Jauzi, Talbis Iblis (Delusion of the Devil) 4:
The third name (of Islam heretics) is Sabˁiyyah (Seveners), for which there are two reasons. One, their belief that the cycle of sovereignty is in sevens as we have explained, and that arrival at the seventh is the termination of a cycle, and that is meant by the Resurrection, there being no end to the succession of cycles. The second, their holding that the government of the lower world depends on the seven stars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, the Sun, Mercury, the Moon.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Abu’l Faraj Ibn Jauzi, Talbis Iblis (Delusion of the Devil) 4

Bibliography

Margoliouth 2003, 96

Margoliouth, D. S. Tablis Iblis (Delusion of the Devil) by Abu'l Faraj Ibn Jauzi. New Delhi: Kitab Bhavan 2003.

Amar Annus

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