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…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
HE THEN GOES ON to conclude on this basis that since the Holy Qur’ān is intact and has not been…
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…
AS FOR THE WORD ‘ISLAM’, this denotes ‘perfection and completeness’ and the noun does not denote the religion of Islam…
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…
THIS THOUGHT, disguised by religion, but which is full of Christian or Jewish apocrypha and false, distorted interpretations, comes about…