Category: Textual Integrity

  • Furqaan : Com­men­tary on the Zaman-Heger Debate

    Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi When Dr. Christoph Heger, an Ori­en­tal­ist schol­ar with unknown qual­i­fi­ca­tions and dis­put­ed cre­den­tials, wrote his com­men­tary on the open­ing verse of Sura’ al-Furqaan in July of 1999, his trea­tise was sound­ly respond­ed to by Broth­er Shi­b­li Zaman, who is quite famil­iar with the Semit­ic lan­guages employed in the study. While it…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • Qur’an­ic Com­men­tary on Sura’ Az-Zukhruf (43): 63 – 64

    The following is the reproduction of the translation of Qur'an 43:63-64 with the accompanying footnotes to the amazing consistency and parallelism with the Message which Jesus (P) had consistently preached as found in the current gospels. It is often the common missionary argument is that since the Qur'an is often found to "contradict" the Bible,…

  • Sabaan Mina Al-Math­ani : The Sev­en Which Are Often Repeated

    In an article marked by a characteristically polemical style which is the hallmark of almost any writing to be found on Answering Islam, the author has exerted his utmost effort to prove that the reference in the Qur'an (15:87) to the "seven oft-repeated" is "an example of the Qur'an's incompleteness and incoherence." Additionally, the author…