On the Prophet’s biographers
LATER OUTSHADOWING the biography of Ibn Isḥāq was the work of Ibn Hishām (ob. 218 AH), who refined it and…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
LATER OUTSHADOWING the biography of Ibn Isḥāq was the work of Ibn Hishām (ob. 218 AH), who refined it and…
THE HISTORY OF ‘Thamūd’ dates back to the third millennium BC (circa 3000–2500 BC), and they were inhabitants of north-western…
ACCORDING TO THE official Islamic narrative, fasting in the month of Ramaḍān was imposed during the second year of the…
THE AUTHOR QUOTES the Islamic historian Al-Dhahabī’s report of the most prominent features of the year 143 AH, during the…
IN THE QUR’ĀN, the Hebrew Bible is referred to in two different ways: the ‘Book’ and the ‘Torah’. The Torah…
MUḤAMMAD REPEATEDLY STATED that ‘the book’ (the Qur’ān) is nothing but a confirmation of the previous books (the Torah and the Bible) to…
CHRISTIANITY, FOR EXAMPLE, is an extension of Judaism and the Old Testament (Jewish ‘Torah’) remains for Christians part of their…
CONFIRMING WHAT AL-KINDĪ said concerning the burning of the six recensions of the Qur’ān during the reign of ‘Abd al-Malik…
HE CONSIDERED THIS a Christian heresy and cast light on the nature of the relationship between Muḥammad and a certain…
THIS IS CONFIRMED by the work of scholars and researchers on the distortion of the Qur’ān, and it is from…