History’s Biggest Rewrite: The Death of Jesus
My conversation with brother Paul Williams about Sufism, in general, and my book “Tawḥīd According to Sufis: The Oneness of God in Sufism”, in particular.
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How Jesus Became a God and Why Muhammad ﷺ Didn’t
Justice in the Qur’an is a unique universal and overarching principle that points to the divine origin of this unique Book.
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The Crucifixion Historicity-Culpability Paradox of Gospel Scholarship: The Cost of Blame Reversal
Justice in the Qur’an is a unique universal and overarching principle that points to the divine origin of this unique Book.
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A History of Understanding the Qur’an’s Verdict on Jesus’ Crucifixion
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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The Non-Crucifixion Verse: A Historical, Contextual, and Linguistic Analysis
My paper is the most detailed justification of the majority view that the Qur’an denies that Jesus was crucified.
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Jesus and the Law in the Qur’an and the New Testament
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 End of Jesus’ Life on Earth in the Qur’an
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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Josephus’ Alleged Testimony on Jesus: A Historical and Islamic Critique
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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Did the Crucifixion of Jesus Happen? The Evidence Considered
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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Does the Qur’an Deny the Crucifixion of Jesus?
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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Did Muslim Exegetes Ever Accept Jesus’ Crucifixion? Debunking a Recent Myth
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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Jesus and the Law in the Qur’an
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 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 Gospels’ disagreement on the time of the crucifixion
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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