The historical relationship between faith and science
THIS WAS ESPECIALLY the case in the period of Ottoman (Turkish) colonialism, which lasted more than four hundred years (from…
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The Qur’ān according to critical research – 8
THERE WAS NOTHING TERMED ‘Islam’ during the reign of John of Damascus. He termed it a heresy or the ‘religion of…
The Qur’ān according to critical research – 7
THE SCHOLARS ACKNOWLEDGE that the Qur’ān has undergone distortion, but the generality of the people are unaware of this. The original…
The Qur’ān according to critical research – 6
WE THEN FIND HIM declaring the existence of distortion in the article ‘Qur’ān’ for the Encyclopaedia Islamica, where he states: ‘there…
Prayers on the Christians as ‘infidels’ – 1
IN THIS INTERVIEW, conducted in 1988 by the Parisian journal L’Actualité Religieuse he said the following: “Prayer is one of the five…
The Qur’ān according to critical research – 5
THIS IS THE CONCLUSION that Gerald Hawting comes to in his book The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam.[i] Firstly,…
The Qur’ān according to critical research – 4
AS FOR THE NEW TESTAMENT, it was not written down in the era of Christ (the Gospel of Mark was…
The Qur’ān according to critical research – 3
HOW DO WE KNOW that the Qur’ānic texts date back to Muḥammad? What sources can the researcher rely on to…
The Christian roots of Islam and the Jahiliyya canard – 2
FOR PIOUS FOLK, this reality might feel like an insult and a blasphemy. Some hardliners do not accept that the…
The Christian roots of Islam and the Jahiliyya canard – 1
BEFORE COMING TO THE SPREAD of Christianity in the Arabian Peninsula and the Fertile Crescent before and after Islam, we…