The path of deviation and distortion – 1
LET US CONTENT ourselves at this juncture to speak of Revelation as a completed act, and one which believers consider…
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LET US CONTENT ourselves at this juncture to speak of Revelation as a completed act, and one which believers consider…
HERE WE WILL CONCENTRATE on the mechanism of Salafist ostracism whose purpose, in the final analysis, is domination. The Salafist…
ACCORDING TO IBN QUTAYBA consensus – that is, the consensus of the nation’s élite (or legislative powers in the contemporary…
SHĪʽITE IMAMITE JURISPRUDENCE in itself entirely disavows the possibility of the Prophets committing sins, be they venial or mortal, whether…
IN THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ISLAM, Dr. Wim Raven wrote an entry on the sīra. What he says in his introduction…
THIS HABIT – DISTORTION – seems to be in harmony with the natural course of history, with the character of…
IN ITS FINE DETAILS the Prophet’s sīra constitutes a basis for fatwas (juristic ruling concerning Islamic law) and provides the…
THE TERM ‘INFALLIBILITY’ is completely absent from early Islamic historiography, and textual evidence on the events of this early period…
WHAT EVIDENCE do we have that the expressions of the Qur’ān are influenced by the personality of the Prophet? We…