The Hidden Origins of early Islam – 2
THIS IS CONTRARY to reality despite its logical arguments, since the general historical context suggests that the Hijaz was one…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
THIS IS CONTRARY to reality despite its logical arguments, since the general historical context suggests that the Hijaz was one…
THEIR AIM IS TO RESEARCH and delve into the early past of Islam and remove the rubble of legend from…
THIS IS THE CONCLUSION that Gerald Hawting comes to in his book The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam.[i] Firstly,…
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…