A PROPHET AND MORE THAN A PROPHET? SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE QUR'ĀNIC USE OF THE TERMS "PROPHET" AND "APOSTLE"

The choice of this topic is far from original. Beside s numerous shorter references to this subject in many general survey s of Islam, ¹ some widely-known Islamic scholars have discussed this issue at considerable length. To this latter group belong, among others, Pautz (1898), ² Caetani (1905), ³ Wensinck (1924), ⁴ Horovitz (1926), ⁵ Ahrens (1935), ⁶ Jeffery (1950), ⁷ and Bell (1953).⁸