Syriac and Aramaic origins of the Qur’an – 2
AT THE BEGINNING of his commentary, Luxenberg refers to al-Suyūṭī (1445-1505 CE), who mentions Abū al-Qāsim in his Languages of the…
Syriac and Aramaic origins of the Qur’ān – 1
THE FACT THAT the orientalist researcher Christoph Luxenberg was able to explain many of the dilemmas thanks to his recourse…
The Qur’anic script – some clarifications – 2
IN FACT THE ISSUE is not how the words were pronounced, but how they were written. The reason for this is…
“There is no compulsion in religion”
HOWEVER, THEY FORGET that in the most conspicuous of its two elements it is abrogated, and that those who said…
Mu‘tazila rationalism between past failure and present need
AMONG THE MOST FAMOUS Mu‘tazilites were Wāṣil ibn ‘Aṭā’, ‘Amr ibn ‘Ubayd, Ibrāhīm al-Naẓẓām, Hishām ibn ‘Amr al-Fūṭī, Al-Zamakhsharī the…
The apologetic mindset – techniques of evasion – 1
THIS SLIPPERY REVERENTIAL, justificatory mentality has been obsessed with searching for ways out of embarrassing dilemmas – a process that…
The human origin of the Text – 1
IN BOTH CASES the result is the same: the Prophet introduced a new religion, spent his life spreading and consolidating…
The human origin of the Text – 2
SINCE THE RELIGIOUS TEXT is always sacred and may not be violated, whether by any emendation, alteration, deletion, addition or…
The quicksilver, reverential, justificatory mentality – 2
WHAT GOVERNED, and still governs, the quicksilver, reverential, justifying mentality, is the assumption of divine intervention in the course of historical events. The course…
They have wiped out “Unto you your religion”!
WHEN IT WAS COLLECTED together following the death of the Messenger, the Qur’ān was assembled in several stages, the last…