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Dead Sea Apes

Dead Sea Apes

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The Dead Sea Apes is a Quran story of dwellers by the Dead Sea who were transformed into apes for breaking the Sabbath.[1] It is also a metaphor used, for instance by Thomas Carlyle, describing people in modern times to whom the universe, with all its serious voices, seems to have become a weariness and a humbug.[2]

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  1. [1]
    Surah Al-A'raf 7:163-166
  2. [2]
    Carlyle, Thomas (1918), Past and Present, C. Scribner's sons, p. 177, ISBN 9780814705612
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