Number 12 in Islamic Culture

Year 2004, Issue: 4, 9 - 34, 01.12.2004

Adnan Demircan

Abstract

Like in other cultures, some certain numbers are considered to have
special importance in Islamic Culture. Both in Jewish and Christian
Cultures and in Islamic Culture as well, one of the numbers that take
attention is number 12. One of the reasons that we see the usage of
number 12 in Islamic Culture frequently must be the influence of Jewish
and Christian Cultures over the Islamic Culture.
We have to be careful about some numbers that are being circulated
in people’s mind to date some occasions and to explain some numerical
data. We can give the following examples in which the number 12 is
used: Distances between places, number of soldiers in armies and
number of whom are killed in wars.
In this article, we have studied the case to show the usage of
interesting examples in the Islamic Culture along with the Jewish and
Islamic Culture.

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