In an article of his, Christoph Heger has ventured to uncover what he insinuated as the pre-Islamic ground layer of an originally Christian text in the Qur’anic Sura 96. Let us first present a beautiful English rendering of the portion of this Sura under consideration here: Recite in the name of thy Lord who created…
Edward W. Said (We do not neccessarily agree with everything that is said by the author ? Ed. ) The media have become obsessed with something called “Islam,” which in their voguish lexicon has acquired only two meanings, both of them unacceptable and impoverishing. On the one hand, “Islam” represents the threat of a resurgent…
It is known that the enemies of Islam, most especially the Christian missionaries, are unable to accept the reality of the Qur’an and its divine existence. Hence, they try to make excuses and their frequent clarion of despair is that the Qur’an was “plagiarised” from Judeo-Christian sources. This claim was repeated by Orientalists in the…
A list of the thematic structure of the Qur’an, arranged according to the main themes contained within Sura al-Baqarah.
What do the differences between Bible manuscripts reveal? This paper is divided into the following sections: 1. They require you to produce evidence on: WHEN, HOW and WHY was the Bible corrupted 2. Once upon a time, there was a myth about Bible manuscripts 3. Evidence: more than 50 verses either omitted or added, hundreds…
This book, edited by the rather nebulous personage of “Ibn Warraq” (neither his full name nor his institutional affiliation, if any, are anywhere given), consists of thirteen previously published essays on the history and nature of the Qur’anic text, twelve of them dating from the half-century between 1890 and 1940 and only the thirteenth dating…