Myths About “The Verse of the Sword”
Statements by scholars dating back to the 3rd century Hirji have claimed that the following verse, which has become known as “the verse of the…
Is the Mushaf a complete record of the Qur’an? The controversy of abrogation
This is a summary of the third Abdullah Yusuf Ali Memorial Lecture which I will deliver. For more information about the lecture, visit my blog or…
Abrogation from Muslim and Non-Muslim Perspectives
This article has been extracted from the “Introduction” to Abrogation in the Qur’an and Islamic Law: A Critical Study of the Concept of “Naskh” and its…
The Importance of Abrogation
“Naskh,” or “abrogation” as it is translated, has been the subject of numerous studies by Muslim scholars down the centuries. As the mechanism describing how…
