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Apologetic articles addressing common Muslim objections, challenges, and misunderstandings about the Bible, Christian doctrine, and the Christian response to Islamic claims.

Was Haman the high-priest of Amun? Members Public

Examining a proposed solution to a historical problem in the Qur'an Andrew Vargo Introduction In his paper, "Historicity of Haman as Mentioned in the Qur'an" (Islamic Quarterly, 1980, Volume XXIV, pp. 48-59), Sher Mohammad Syed attempts to partially rescue Muhammad's Qur'

Andrew Vargo
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The Haman Hoax Members Public

Jochen Katz Introduction The Qur’an contains several instances of “historical compression”, i.e. stories in which two or more separate historical events are combined to create a new story, or a character from one story is transferred or imported into another story. For example, in the Qur’an we

Jochen Katz
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Rebuttals to Islamic Awareness : On The Nature Of Hadith Collections Of Imam Bukhari & Muslim Members Public

Responses to Islamic Awareness On The Nature Of Hadth Collections Of Imm Bukhr & Muslim In a recent article, Khazraj, Ghoniem, Saifullah, and Hannan [who for the sake of brevity, will be referred to as KGSH] objected to a response that I wrote entitled Are There any Early Hadith? A

Andrew Vargo
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The Qur'an: Grammatical Errors Members Public

Copyright 1996 by M. Rafiqul-Haqq and P. Newton. All rights reserved. Muslims believe that Allah revealed a book to each of Abraham, Moses, David and Jesus. "But the Book of the prophet Abraham was lost. The Books of David (the Psalms), Moses (the Torah), and Jesus (the Gospel) were

P. Newton
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Are the "Shia suras" al-Nurain and al-Wilaya genuine? Members Public

(Despite his personal attacks it contains) M.S.M. Saifullah from Cambridge University has posted to the newsgroup soc.religion.islam a valuable piece of investiagation into the authenticity of the suras al-Nurain and al-Wilaya which sometimes are claimed to be suras that can be found in some Shia editions

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Rebuttals to "It is Truth" Members Public

Responses to "It is Truth" Preface Traditional Muslim scholars read the Qur'an and use exegesis to derive the meaning of the text. In recent years, Muslims have used eisigisis to extract a desired meaning from the Qur'an and, in this site, the Hadith. Muslims

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Rebuttal to Shibli Zaman: Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools ... Members Public

Responses to Shibli Zaman Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools ... Shibli Zaman has tried to interact with my response to Osama Abdallah regarding the Lord Jesus’ prayer in Luke 23:34. Seemingly not satisfied with his studies of the Semitic languages, Zaman has ventured into tackling issues related

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Christian Response To "Islam Awareness" : The Flat-Earth Bible Members Public

Christian Response To: The Flat-Earth Bible As we were browsing through the net, we discovered the following article on a Muslim site trying to establish the point that the Holy Bible teaches a flat earth. We felt that it was our duty as Christians to expose some of the shallow

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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