Tag : Ibn Kathir

The Expul­sion of Banu al-Qurayzah

Excerpt­ed from Mad­i­nan Soci­ety At the Time of the Prophet, Inter­na­tion­al Islam­ic Pub­lish­ing House & IIIT, 1991 The date of the cam­paign The action against Banu…

Six or Eight Days of Cre­ation” Revis­it­ed : A Col­lec­tion of Major Com­men­taries on Qur’an, 41:10

We have not­ed in our ear­li­er rebut­tal to a Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ary fan­ta­sy that A. Yusuf Ali had allud­ed to the com­men­taries of the major…

Prophet Muham­mad’s Night Jour­ney and Ascen­sion to Heaven

From Muham­mad Asad’s com­men­tary, The Mes­sage of The Qur’an Surah 17 (Al-Isra’), verse 1 reads as : Lim­it­less in His glo­ry is He who trans­port­ed His servant…

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Did al-Zuṭṭ Ride Muham­mad ? A Crit­i­cal Philo­log­i­cal Reassess­ment of a Mod­ern Anti-Islam Polemic

This study dis­man­tles the al-zuṭṭ hadith polemic through close read­ing, lex­i­cog­ra­phy, and nar­ra­tive con­trol. By restor­ing con­text to yark­abūn, exam­in­ing trans­mis­sion vari­ants, and com­par­ing Semit­ic par­al­lels, it shows how innu­en­do trans­la­tion exploits pol­y­se­my, sup­press­es clo­sure, and man­u­fac­tures scan­dal with­out his­tor­i­cal war­rant with­in dis­ci­plined philol­o­gy and sober method­olog­i­cal lim­its alone here

State of Flux : Con­test­ed Doc­trines in Ear­ly Christianity

Ear­ly Chris­tian­i­ty lacked a sin­gle, uni­fied the­ol­o­gy. This arti­cle shows how lat­er ortho­doxy” emerged through his­tor­i­cal con­sol­i­da­tion rather than orig­i­nal consensus.

The Death of Muham­mad ﷺ : Poi­son, Prophet­hood, and the Mis­read­ing of Sources

The death of Muham­mad ﷺ exam­ined through Qur’anic lan­guage, hadith con­text, and his­to­ry, expos­ing how poi­son claims rely on mis­read­ing sources.