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…
Spotlight on falsified history
AS FOR THE HISTORICAL narrative on scientific, literary and cultural progress in Islamic lands, from the Rightly-Guided Caliphate through the…
Myths of Islamists – The asceticism of the Companions
IF WE TAKE the first example, the man wearing patchwork, this refers to ‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb. The Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jamā‘a…
Reflections on the Makkan Qur’ān – 6
THIS PART OF THE SŪRA is almost a mirror image of the sermon of the priest Ibn Sā‘ida al-Ayādī[1] in which he intones…
Awakening the humane in faith
THE CONNECTION WITH GOD in this humanity of faith is a living and awakened relationship, not one that is based…
Reflections on the Makkan Qur’ān – 5
FIRSTLY, THIS SŪRA IS NOT a Qur’ān sent down by the Lord of Heaven, but a thanksgiving and praise that Muḥammad addresses…
The Islamist fantasy of an economy
ECONOMIC MODELS as we now know are the product of modernity and of European philosophy, despite the disparities between those…
Islamic myths – Yajuj and Majuj – 2
THE NAME MĀGŌG is also mentioned in 1 Chronicles 1:5: The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and…