The Qur’ān according to critical research – 10
THE QUR’ĀN DOES NOT talk about a story of revelation to Muḥammad as it did with the Jewish prophets, and there…
The Qur’ān according to critical research – 9
MĀLIK MUSULMĀNĪ MAKES the following comments on al-Kindī’s Risāla: We understand from the Risāla of al-Kindī that the Qur’ān in the beginning was…
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…
Orientalism as an epistemological necessity for enlightenment – 3
EGYPTIAN SOCIETY, for example, has never monitored the culture and behaviour of Egyptians in the way that the scholars of…
Orientalism as an epistemological necessity for enlightenment – 2
THIS DIFFERENCE THAT stretches the length of the Milky Way is something that can be perceived by the most sophisticated,…
Orientalism as an epistemological necessity for enlightenment – 1
HE THEN GOES ON to conclude on this basis that since the Holy Qur’ān is intact and has not been…