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The Anatomy of Pseudo-Barnabas' Mistakes: Part 1 Members Public

The Anatomy of Pseudo-Barnabas’ Mistakes: Part 1 The Curse of the Evangelists: Confusion and contradiction Masud Masihiyyen An unknown figure of the medieval period that had his peculiar reasons to betray his Christian faith decided to devise a new Gospel compatible with the Islamic creed and tradition and attributed his

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Breaking the Codes of the Gospel of Barnabas The Mystery of Pseudo-Barnabas’ List of the Apostles Masud Masihiyyen We have analyzed in two articles so far how Pseudo-Barnabas’ various mistakes stemmed from his dependence on the canonical Gospels (1, 2). This dependence sounds rather natural when it is remembered that

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SURAH MARIAM: THE CURSE OF THE APOCRYPHA “Mention in the book the errors and absurdities of Muhammad’s scribes” Masud Masihiyyen In the current and standard Qur’an version of the Islamic world the nineteenth chapter bears the name Mariam, which corresponds to Jesus’ mother Mary in the Christian scripture

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Toward Understanding the Turmoil in Islamic Lands By Rev. Bassam M. Madany A Review and Commentary on three works by Bernard Lewis “The Multiple Identities of the Middle East” 1 “The Political Language of Islam” 2 “What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response” 3 Needless to say, the

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The Trinity and Christian Missions to Muslims By Rev. Bassam Michael Madany Islam has engaged the attention of Christians ever since its rise in Arabia in the seventh century. One obvious reason is the fact that most early Muslim conquests took place within Christian lands. “The People of the Book,

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The Status of Women in Islam According to the Qur’an By Rev. Bassam M. Madany On Sunday, October 12, 2008, an ex-Muslims website published an article with this title, “The Reasons for the Backwardness of Muslims (Asbab Takhallof al-Muslimeen)” It listed eight reasons for that “backwardness”. Of particular interest

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