More than 50 years have passed since I first encountered Muslims. I was teaching English at a Catholic school in Akure, a provincial capital in southwestern Nigeria, when one of the Muslim students at the school took me into town for one of the two great festivals of the Muslim calendar. In Arabic that festival is called Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Oblation. It occurs at the climax of the annual hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca.
The oblation referred to is the sacrifice that Abraham was willing to offer of his only son, a story told in the Qur'an as well as Genesis. The relevant verses in the Qur'an are from Sura 37:
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