On scholarly studies on the history of the Qur’ān
SOME OF THESE STUDIES feature the accumulated conclusions and questions posed by the latest research into the sources of the…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
SOME OF THESE STUDIES feature the accumulated conclusions and questions posed by the latest research into the sources of the…
ALONGSIDE THE current of historical criticism of the Qur’ān, a new direction of research emerged around the middle of the…
WHEREAS IN VERSE 82 we have this passage: Thou wilt find the most vehement of mankind in hostility to those…
WHAT IS TRULY heartbreaking is that the major questions and problems related to our religion and our Holy Book often…
ACCORDING TO THE official Islamic narrative, fasting in the month of Ramaḍān was imposed during the second year of 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…
JUST AS WITH the Biblical text, the Qur’ān includes many phrases such as ‘Praise be to God’, and supplications, poems,…
TODAY THE TRADITIONAL current is losing ground as new scholars use research methods similar to those used in biblical criticism…