From the early days of Islam, the overwhelming majority of Muslims and non-Muslims understood the Qur’an as unambiguously denying the Jewish and Christian claim that Jesus was crucified.
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My paper is the most detailed justification of the majority view that the Qur’an denies that Jesus was crucified.
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The Qur’an makes there distinct statements about how Jesus was commanded to treat the Mosaic law. Contrary to the consistent and coherent […]
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The paper argues in favour of a combination of the majority Muslim opinion that Jesus was raised alive to heaven and the minority view that he died naturally. That Jesus died after, not before, he was raised means he died in the abode in heaven to which he was taken. With this partial agreement and disagreement with the majority and minority views on the concepts of tawaffī and rafʿ, this article proposes a relatively new understanding of the Qur’ānic portrayal of the end of Jesus’ life.
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I take a new approach in assessing the significance of the various pieces of evidence to show that the Testimonium Falvianum can only be a complete Christian forgery.
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In this interview on Paul Williams’s Blogging Theology, I review the case for the popular belief that the crucifixion of Jesus is a historical fact
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This is my presentation and discussion with Paul Williams on his outstanding and unique channel Blogging Theology. I discuss in detail what the Qur’an truly says about the crucifixion of Jesus (PBUH).
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A growing minority of scholars, including a few Muslims, have been falsely arguing that the Qur’an does not reject the historicity of the crucifixion of Jesus.
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This article explains Jesus’ relationship with the law according to the Qura’n and compares it with the New Testament account.
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The mysterious Christmas tree tradition might have grown from a historical tree under which, according to the Qur’an, Jesus was born.
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This article is extracted from my book The Historical Jesus: The Messiah in the Qur’an, the Bible, and Historical Sources. I have […]
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This article is adapted from The Mystery of the Crucifixion: The Attempt to Kill Jesus in the Qur’an, the New Testament, and […]
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This article is adapted from The Mystery of the Crucifixion: The Attempt to Kill Jesus in the Qur’an, the New Testament, and […]
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Adapted from The Mystery of the Crucifixion: The Attempt to Kill Jesus in the Qur’an, the New Testament, and Historical Sources Comparing […]
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On the 13th/October/2009, I gave a presentation to a group of postgraduate students and members of staff at the School of Philosophy, […]
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