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 Qur’ān according to critical research – 2
THE QUR’ĀN IS NOT a historical source that we can rely on, it was not written in the Hijaz and…
The Qur’ān according to critical research – 1
THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY of the Qur’ān cannot dispense with questions concerning the author, the history of its authorship, the literary…
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…
The reality of the Arab invasions – from non-Islamic sources – 2
THIS WAS THE CONJUNCTION between the Byzantine succession crisis in Constantinople that erupted in 638 AD, and the outbreak of…