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Historical analysis of religious developments, events, and theological movements relevant to apologetics.
Hubal and Allah Paid Members Public
Hubal and Allah Revisited Addressing one Muslim Polemicist’s Denials Sam Shamoun Muslim writer and polemicist MENJ has undertaken the task of responding to my article regarding the identity of Allah as Hubal in pre-Islamic Arabia. The readers can see our discussion of this issue here, and MENJ’s response
Response to Islamic Awareness: Pseudo-Callisthenes, Dhul-Qarnayn & Alexander The Great Paid Members Public
Responses to Islamic Awareness Pseudo-Callisthenes, Dhul-Qarnayn & Alexander The Great Dr. Saifullah begins this article with his usual tirade of name-calling and insults, which are most inappropriate for a man of his education and purported dedication to God. He then makes an interesting accusation: We will be using book of
From the Maurice “Bucaillian” Haman to the [Latest] “Islamic Awareness” Haman: A Case of a Crumbling Argument? Paid Members Public
From the Maurice “Bucaillian” Haman To the [Latest] “Islamic Awareness” Haman: A Case of a Crumbling Argument? Andrew Vargo After a long hiatus, “Islamic Awareness” has updated their article concerning Haman in the Qur’an, renaming it: “Biblical Haman » Qur’ānic Hāmān: A Case Of Straightforward Literary Transition?” The updated
Was Haman the high-priest of Amun? Paid 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'
Response to Islamic Awareness: Historical Errors of the Qur'an: Pharaoh and Haman Paid Members Public
Responses to Islamic Awareness Historical Errors of the Qur'an: Pharaoh and Haman here The Qur'anic tale mixes a number of Biblical themes including a man named Haman [from the Book of Esther] with the story of the Tower of Babel [from Genesis] with the story of
The Haman Hoax Paid 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
Discussion on al-Hajjaj Paid Members Public
From Jochen Katz <[email protected]> Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam Subject: Re: al-hajjaj revisited Date: Thu Jul 17 11:24:30 EDT 1997 Message-Id: <[email protected]> This posting is in response to From Metallica <[email protected]&
Rebuttals to Islamic Awareness : On The Nature Of Hadith Collections Of Imam Bukhari & Muslim Paid 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