common-questions
Apologetic articles addressing common Muslim objections, challenges, and misunderstandings about the Bible, Christian doctrine, and the Christian response to Islamic claims.
Dont Lose Your Head: Four Reasons for the Early Spread of Islam Paid Members Public
Dont Lose Your Head! Four Reasons for the Early Spread of Islam By David Wood Muslims often cite the early spread of Islam as evidence of its divine origin. While history shows that Islam spread rapidly, many Muslims (and many non-Muslims) have a distorted picture of why it spread rapidly.
Pondering the Invitation to Convert to Islam Paid Members Public
Dallas M. Roark, Ph.D. Recently, the President of Iran sent President Bush a long letter involving a number of things, but one of the items was an invitation for Bush to convert to Islam. I began to wonder about the issue of conversion. What advantage is there in becoming
A Topical Study of the Qur'an Paid Members Public
INTRODUCTION In the wake of the 9-11 attacks on the United States of America by Islamic terrorists, interest by non-Muslims in the teachings of the Qur'an continues to grow. However understanding an English translation of the Arabic Qur'an is often frustrating. For a person trying to
What was and what might have been - THE "GOLDEN AGE" OF HARUN AL-RASHID, by Dr. Paul Stenhouse Paid Members Public
What was and what might have been THE "GOLDEN AGE" OF HARUN AL-RASHID By Dr. Paul Stenhouse 2008 Chevalier Press. Used by permission. As the 'Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad Harun al-Rashid lay on his death-bed in 809 AD in Tus, Khurasan, in what is today Iran, he
Thieves, give Muhammad a hand! Paid Members Public
The tragic sound of one hand clapping in Islam James M. Arlandson Ever since 9/11, we have been careful not be overly critical of Islam because we do not want to insult the religion or to paint it with a broad brush, lumping together the bad Muslims with the
Is the Qur'an Miraculous? -- The Gate Paid Members Public
THE GATE Had it been from other than God, they would surely have found therein much discrepancy. (Q. 4:82) In the course of giving a lesson from history and a warning for the future the Qur'an mentioned a great personality and a powerful nation in Sura 18.
A Topical Study of the Qur'an Paid Members Public
Foreword Robert C. Douglas Ph.D. The challenge which Islam presents to the Christian community is enormous, one worthy of our best response in faith and love. But to provide that kind of response Christians need to do all they can to understand Islam. The Qur'an, Islam'
Are Muslims Fideists? Paid Members Public
By Dallas M. Roark, Ph.D. We need to define the word before we can deal with the question. A fideist is a person who stresses faith without requiring reasons for believing. It is defined by the online dictionary as "Reliance on faith alone rather than scientific reasoning or