The Qur’ān according to critical research – 10
THE QUR’ĀN DOES NOT talk about a story of revelation to Muḥammad as it did with the Jewish prophets, and there…
The Qur’ān according to critical research – 9
MĀLIK MUSULMĀNĪ MAKES the following comments on al-Kindī’s Risāla: We understand from the Risāla of al-Kindī that the Qur’ān in the beginning was…
Myths of Islamists – The asceticism of the Companions
IF WE TAKE the first example, the man wearing patchwork, this refers to ‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb. The Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jamā‘a…
The beginnings of the printed Qur’ān – 2
IN THE CASE OF readings, discussion about the form of the Qur’ānic text ought to be conducted in the context of…
The beginnings of the printed Qur’ān – 1
INITIALLY, THE PUBLICATION of this edition was a purely Egyptian affair. It was the work of a government-appointed committee led by Muḥammad…
Jurists: “We must perfect religion” – Qur’an: “We have done that” – 2
THESE WERE THE PREVAILING currencies of the time when the provisions of jurisprudential dealings such as zakāt, blood money, penance,…
The crisis of Islamic thought: Hadith science as an example – 2
BY CIRCULATING IN THE ORBIT of these narrators and their fallacies and errors, hadith scholars departed from the circle of…
The crisis of Islamic thought: Hadith science as an example – 1
THE SUFIS, for example, have their Shaykh Abdullah Al-Hararī, founder of the Al-Aḥbāsh group in Lebanon, then there is Shaykh…
Jurists: “We must perfect religion” – Qur’an: “We have done that” – 1
DUE TO THE DIFFICULTIES that would be involved in carrying out a statistical analysis of human production from the time…
The mysteries of Sahih books and the myths of jurists
THESE WORKS WERE composed more than two hundred years after the death of the Prophet, when there was eyewitness transmitter…