Category: The Qur'an

  • Is The Qur’an Real­ly The Work of Mul­ti­ple Hands ?

    Is The Qur’an Real­ly The Work of Mul­ti­ple Hands ?

    We were recent­ly con­front­ed with the claims of Denis Giron in his arti­cle that the com­po­si­tion of the Qur’an is sim­ply the work of mul­ti­ple authors. In this paper, we shall seek to study the claims made and make a few respons­es to the remarks made in his response to this arti­cle, insha’Allah. Eval­u­at­ing The Sources…

  • Waraqa ibn Nau­fal and the Chris­t­ian Polemics

    Waraqa ibn Nau­fal and the Chris­t­ian Polemics

    In an arti­cle of his, Jochen Katz has made much of the nar­ra­tives about Waraqa ibn Nau­fal, and has con­jec­tured on his alleged influ­ence on Prophet Muham­mad’s(P) reli­gious thought. Fol­low­ing is a rep­re­sen­ta­tive extract of his said article : Waraqa lived in Mec­ca and prob­a­bly Muham­mad has met him long before his mar­riage to Khadi­ja already, but…

  • P. Michaelides no 32

    The fol­low­ingAdolf Grohmann, The Prob­lem of Dat­ing Ear­ly Qur’an, in Der Islam 33 (1958), heft 3, pp. 222 – 226. is a detailed exam­i­na­tion of a very ear­ly Qur’an­ic papyrus. Please note the con­clu­sion of the inves­ti­ga­tor at the end of this arti­cle, accord­ing to which this papyrus belongs to the first cen­tu­ry of the Hijra or the sev­enth…

  • Ear­ly Preser­va­tion & Trans­mis­sion Of The Qur’an

    The fol­low­ing shows the text of the first Sura’ of the Qur’an inscribed on the shoul­der blade of a camel, pre­served in the Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty Library.Ency­clopae­dia of the Qur’an, Vol. II (Lei­den : Brill, 2002) We know that the first steps for the preser­va­tion of the Qur’an were tak­en in the life­time of the Prophet. Tra­di­tion records…

  • Response To Claims Made Against The Elo­quence of the Qur’an

    Intro­duc­tion This arti­cle was writ­ten to exam­ine the lan­guage of the Qur’an and the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing it, in ref­er­ence to its super­nat­ur­al elo­quence. We will also at the same time scru­ti­nize a post­ing by a Chris­t­ian apol­o­gist, Pete Nash — or oth­er­wise known as Kip Rid­er, which attacks the elo­quence claim of the Qur’an and see whether it stands…

  • Qur’an­ic Com­men­tary on Sura’ Al-Ikhlas (112)

    The secret about Sura' Al-Ikhlas is more than can meet the shallow thoughts of atheists and critics of Islam. This very short chapter contains in it the summary of many concepts that are to lead people to The One True God and to refute the misguided notions about God. Although the Sura' is very short,…