Mistaking Islam for a State: Misunderstanding Religion and Revering False History
The evil of ISIS has been filling news bulletins with stories that seem to be incessantly in competition to show how low […]
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Similarities and Differences Between the Qur’an and Jewish and Christian Scriptures and Sources: What Do They Really Mean?
One observation that is often made by critics of the Qur’an is that at times its historical account of a story, such […]
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The Islamic Caliphate Between Past Myths and Present Delusions
The Islamic caliphate is promoted by its advocates on the basis that it was an ideal system of Islamic government in the […]
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The Christmas Tree in the Qur’an?
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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Jesus’ Birth in the Qur’an
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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The Misguided and Counterproductive Attempts to Silence Those who Question Islamic Tradition and History
On the 28th/August/2012, the British TV broadcaster Channel 4 screened a program titled Islam: The Untold Story by historian Tom Holland. The […]
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Bringing Religious Intolerance Down to Earth: The Case of the Sunni-Shia Schism
Religious differences are as old as religion. There is no religion whose history is not rife with bitter disputes between its denominations. […]
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History in the Qur’an
This article is adapted from The Mystery Of The Historical Jesus: The Messiah in the Qur’an, the Bible, and Historical Sources Those […]
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A Short Biography of Prophet Muhammad
This article is taken from the second edition of Jihad in the Qur’an: The Truth from the Source. The book is now […]
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