Qur’anic Contradictions
Documented analysis of Qur’anic contradictions using Arabic sources, Hadith, and historical context, featuring in-depth rebuttals by Sam Shamoun.
Catholic Encyclopedia, Muhammad & Islam Paid Members Public
The following extracts are taken from Mohammed and Mohammedism. All emphasis will be mine. The founder… On his commercial journeys to Syria and Palestine he became acquainted with Jews and Christians, and acquired an imperfect knowledge of their religion and traditions. He was a man of retiring disposition, addicted to
Patriarch Timothy I on Muhammad Paid Members Public
The following excerpt is taken from The apology of Timothy the Patriarch before the Caliph Mahdi, translated by Alphonse Mingana, published by Manchester University Press, England, 1928, pp. 196-198. Timothy I (AD 780-823) was the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East who made an apology for the Christian
Palamas and Islam Revisited Paid Members Public
In this post I will be quoting from Gregory Palamas: The Hesychast Controversy and the Debate with Islam, Translated Texts for Byzantinists, Volume 8, translated with an introduction and notes by Norman Russell, published by Liverpool University Press, 2020. Palamis assumes that both Christians and the Turkish Muslims have the
The Dog of Allah Revealed Paid Members Public
The Quran in S. 53 mentions a star which sets: By the star when it goes down, (or vanishes). Your companion (Muhammad) has neither gone astray nor has erred. Nor does he speak of (his own) desire. It is only an Inspiration that is inspired. S. 53:1-4 Hilali-Khan According
ALLAH IMPROVES OVER TIME Paid Members Public
The Quran depicts Allah as a finite being who improves and gets better over time. As an example of this point, Allah states that his recreating or resurrecting the creation is easier for him to handle than having first created all things. And He it is Who originates the creation,
MEDIATION IN ISLAM Paid Members Public
There are certain narrations that are deemed to be authentic according to Sunni Islam, which plainly show Muhammad’s followers using either him or someone close to him as a means of mediating between the Islamic god and his followers. Take, for instance, the following hadiths which speak of gazing
A GOAT’S JIHAD ON STONING & SUCKLING Paid Members Public
The sunni Islamic traditions contain some rather silly and embarrassing narrations, which have caused many a Muslim shame and humiliation. Take, for example, the claim that Muhammad ordered a woman to breastfeed a mature young man a number of times in order to make him her foster-son! Or the fact
FATIMAH’S MUSHAF: ANOTHER DILEMMA Paid Members Public
According to the authoritative Shia traditions, “Gabriel” came to Muhammad’s daughter Fatimah shortly after her father’s death and gave her “revelations” which Ali her husband wrote down. This revelation is known as the Mushaf of Fatimah, which some have variously rendered as the “Quran,” “Parchment,” or “Book” of