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…
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AS FOR THE NEW TESTAMENT, it was not written down in the era of Christ (the Gospel of Mark was…
HOW DO WE KNOW that the Qur’ānic texts date back to Muḥammad? What sources can the researcher rely on to…
IN ORDER TO FACILITATE the preservation of the Arab, and later the Islamic, heritage the narrators and the author of…
THE QUR’ĀN IS NOT a historical source that we can rely on, it was not written in the Hijaz and…
THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY of the Qur’ān cannot dispense with questions concerning the author, the history of its authorship, the literary…
FOR PIOUS FOLK, this reality might feel like an insult and a blasphemy. Some hardliners do not accept that the…
BEFORE COMING TO THE SPREAD of Christianity in the Arabian Peninsula and the Fertile Crescent before and after Islam, we…
IN HIS COLLECTION of Ṣaḥīḥ hadiths Muslim narrates a tale that demonstrates the position of ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib as regards Abū Bakr…
WE WILL THEREFORE refer to the books of the Muslims to find out just how deep that brotherly relationship was,…
HOWEVER, THEY FORGET that in the most conspicuous of its two elements it is abrogated, and that those who said…