Prayers on the Christians as ‘infidels’ – 1
IN THIS INTERVIEW, conducted in 1988 by the Parisian journal L’Actualité Religieuse he said the following: “Prayer is one of the five…
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…
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…
The Hidden Origins of early Islam – 1
THEIR AIM IS TO RESEARCH and delve into the early past of Islam and remove the rubble of legend from…
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…
The meaning of ‘religion’ and ‘Islam’ in the Qur’ān
AS FOR THE WORD ‘ISLAM’, this denotes ‘perfection and completeness’ and the noun does not denote the religion of Islam…