Woman and Man’s “fall”: A Qur’anic Theological Perspective

Muslims generally—like Christians and Jews—believe that Eve was responsible for Adam’s “Fall”. This belief is not grounded in the Qur’anic text which neither upholds the idea of the “Fall” nor the idea that woman was responsible for man’s exodus fromal-janna(Paradise) as an analysis of relevant passages would demonstrate. Here one may note that the Qur’an is not chronologically structured like Genesis in the Bible. Just as it does not refer to the subject of human creation in Sura¹, or in one place, it also does not refer to the subject of the departure of the human