Israel’s Chosenness in the Qur’an
The Hebrew Bible presents the Israelites as God’s perpetually chosen people. Historically, Christians claimed that the Church replaced the Jews as God’s […]
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Abraham’s Covenant: A Qur’anic correction of Biblical History and Theology
God’s covenant with Abraham is a foundational theme in the Bible. Yet the unconditional chosenness of the Israelites makes the covenant rather ambiguous and inconsistent with other teachings about God in the same book. Free from the ethnocentricity of the Bible, the Qur’an presents a clear, consistent, and far more convincing account of the Abrahamic covenant.
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Understanding Biblical Roots of American Exceptionalism and Support of Israel
This Blogging Theology video is a more detailed presentation of the video on my personal channel on the history of American exceptionalism, Zionism, and modern Israel and the link between them.
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The Supremacist Ideology of American Exceptionalism and Exceptionalising Israel
America’s entrenched self-image as a chosen, exceptional, redeemer nation is borrowed from the Hebrew Bible, having been modelled on the history of the Israelites. American exceptionalism has been the main driving force behind the creation of Israel in Palestine. America sees Israel as a confirmation of its own self-identity. American exceptionalisation is not only a supremacist ideology but the most dangerous in the world.
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Israel’s Unprecedented Destruction of Moral Standards in the World
Never in history before has a state, nation, or dictatorship succeeded in coercing or convincing this many governments, organisations, groups, and individuals to actively support, passively approve of, or stay silent on genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass killing, and treating civilians as legitimate collateral damage.
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The Qur’an’s Universal God and the Hebrew Bible’s Ethnocentric God
In this video, I focus on a fundamental difference between the account of the Exodus in the Qur’an and the Old Testament. Although this difference is theological, rather than historical, it still provides further testimony to the accuracy and coherence of the Qur’an and exposes the paradoxical nature of the Biblical account.
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The Qur’an’s “Pharaoh of Awtad”
The Qur’an describes Pharaoh with the unique title “dhū al-awtād” (of awtād), which I argue particularly applied to Ramesses II. This is another significant piece of information in the Qur’an that does not exist in the Old Testament’s narrative of the Exodus.
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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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A Subtle Historical Miracle in the Qur’an’s Account of the Exodus
The interview with Paul Williams is an extended version of the earlier presentation on this miracle on my channel @louay.fatoohi. In the discussion with Paul, I give more details, present more evidence, and explain why the references in Pharaoh’s claim could not have been to Canaan.
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Identifying the Qur’an’s “One” Pharaoh
Unlike the Bible, the Qur’an speaks about one Pharaoh. The Pharaoh in whose reign the Prophet Moses was born is the same Pharaoh who led his army chasing Moses and the Israelites when they escaped from Egypt, and who ultimately drowned in the sea. This fact has the potential to unambiguously identify Pharaoh.
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The Leadership of the Prophet Muhammad
There are many indications in the Qur’an, Sunna, and history of the various leadership skills that Allah granted His Prophet ﷺ. But I focus in the interview on verse 159 of the Medinite chapter of Al ʾImrān. It is distinguished from other verses as it mentions several leadership attributes and behaviours of the Prophet ﷺ that were necessary for his success in spreading his Message.
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A Qur’anic Historical Miracle: Pharaoh’s Strange Claim
When Moses told Pharaoh that Allah wanted him to let the Israelites leave Egypt with them, Pharoah rejected the demand. But then […]
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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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