[37], In 1920, J. D. Prince also suggested a possible link between the Lord (Ni) of Marad and Nimrod. The nickname 'Nimrod' was used mockingly in the 1914 novel by Robert Tressell in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. 19, no. No king named Nimrod or with a similar name appears anywhere on any pre-biblical, extra-biblical or historic Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian or Babylonian king list, nor does the name Nimrod appear in any other writings from Mesopotamia itself in any context whatsoever. blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: Among those who came before you there lived a king who had a (court) sorcerer. of a tree. Nimrod is referred to in the Koran (xxi. Ibrahim told him that. In those days the giants were considered as gods. 11), however, Nimrod had left Babylonia before the building of the tower, and had gone to Assyria, where he built four other cities, namely, Nineveh, Rehobot, Calah, and Resen (comp. shot an arrow and it hit his temple. The king said to him: What has happened to your companions? than me? him: Turn back from your religion. There is no story about him and any child [38], According to Ronald Hendel the name Nimrod is probably a much later polemical distortion of the Semitic Assyrian god Ninurta, a prominent god in Mesopotamian religion who had cult centers in a number of Assyrian cities such as Kalhu, and also in Babylon, and was a patron god of a number of Assyrian kings. 5; for other explanations see below). Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are called, as a group, the Abrahamic religions and had their roots in the area surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. So he shot (arrows) and said: Allah sent down mosquitoes! could do that. [CDATA[ Another Muslim historian of the 13th century, Abu al-Fida, relates the same story, adding that the patriarch Eber (an ancestor of Abraham) was allowed to keep the original tongue, Hebrew in this case, because he would not partake in the building. Every major structure had been damaged, the Ziggurat of Nimrud had been flattened, only a few scattered broken walls remained of the palace of Ashurnasirpal II, the Lamassu that once guarded its gates had been smashed and scattered across the landscape. Both episodes were voiced by Mel Blanc and produced by Edward Selzer.[57]. God said: "I made Nimrod great; but he built a tower in order that he might rebel against Me" (ul. Historians, Orientalists, Assyriologists and mythographers have long tried to find links between the Nimrod of biblical texts and real historically attested figures in Mesopotamia. Were going to take our arrows and were going to shoot Him straight in that sky, from where the revelation comes to Ibrahim!, And he got his whole army up and he said: Come on, you call yourself Allah, God? - TheTorah.com, Current Ummah of Islam (Ummah of Muhammad), ibn Abdullah ibn Abdul-Muttalib ibn Hashim, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nimrod&oldid=1149547832, Articles with incomplete citations from March 2017, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)-language text, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2022, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2022, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2021, Articles needing additional references from September 2021, All articles needing additional references, Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback via Module:Annotated link, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, In the Monster Hunter International series by, Mother Abiona or Amtelai the daughter of Karnebo. Log in, //