النُّزُول
al-nuzūl
Descent; Islamic eschatological literature uses the term for the future descent of ʿĪsā ibn Maryam.
- Pronunciation
- an-nu-zūlPronunciation is approximate and may vary by period, dialect, and scholarly reconstruction.
- Morphology
- verbal noun from نزل
- Semantic range
- descent
- coming down
- lodging
Corpus usage
- The developed eschatological narrative depends especially on hadith traditions.
Common interpretive errors
- Equating the descent with Christian Parousia doctrine without qualification.
- Claiming every detail is explicit in the Qur'an.