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…
Is a dating of the Qur’ān and Islam actually possible?
IN ORDER TO FACILITATE the preservation of the Arab, and later the Islamic, heritage the narrators and the author of…
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…
Myths of Islamists – Love between the Companions – 2
IN HIS COLLECTION of Ṣaḥīḥ hadiths Muslim narrates a tale that demonstrates the position of ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib as regards Abū Bakr…
Myths of Islamists – Love between the Companions – 1
WE WILL THEREFORE refer to the books of the Muslims to find out just how deep that brotherly relationship was,…