@inbook{0b165b3f45454a6d8425a4fc063d3b36,
title = "The martyrdom of the Sevensleepers in transformation: from Syriac Christianity to the Qur'an and to the Dutch-Iranian writer Kader Abdolah",
abstract = "The sevensleepers of Efesus is a miracle story in early Christianity. It was transformed into a text of the Qur'an (Sura the cave), and in modernity has been taken up in Kader Abdolah's novel Spijkerschrift. The topic of martyrdom and freedom of religion has disappeared somewhat in the Qur'an but resurfaces in Abdolah's novel, a moving account of protest against the Khomeiny regime.",
author = "Marcel Poorthuis",
year = "2020",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789462988187",
series = "Heritage and memory studies",
publisher = "Amsterdam University Press/WRR",
pages = "241--254",
editor = "{van Henten}, {Jan Willem} and Ihab Saloul",
booktitle = "Martyrdom, canonization, contestation and afterlife",
}