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Submitted to a Medieval Forgery Paid Members Public
Submitted to a Medieval Forgery Masud Masihiyyen Say: “We believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto us and that which was forged by fake Barnabas. We definitely make a distinction between our scripture and the scripture fabricated by a supposed Muslim as we consider the Gospel of Barnabas
The Anatomy of Pseudo-Barnabas' Mistakes: Part 2 Paid Members Public
The Anatomy of Pseudo-Barnabas' Mistakes: Part 2 The Curse of the Evangelists: Historical and Geographical Errors Masud Masihiyyen As we discussed at length and illustrated with the help of a few examples in the first part of our analysis, Pseudo-Barnabas supposed that maintaining the style of the
The Anatomy of Pseudo-Barnabas' Mistakes: Part 1 Paid 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
Breaking the Codes of the Gospel of Barnabas Paid Members Public
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
Toward Understanding the Turmoil in Islamic Lands Paid Members Public
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
The Trinity and Christian Missions to Muslims Paid Members Public
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,
The Status of Women in Islam Paid Members Public
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
"It's High Time for Shi'ites to Change Their Spirit of Victimhood" Paid Members Public
“It’s High Time for Shi’ites to Change Their Spirit of Victimhood” By Rev. Bassam Michael Madany 14 September, 2016 The reformist/liberal online journal Al-Awan (Kairos1) published on 6 September, 2016, an impassioned essay by an Arab intellectual addressed to the Shi’ites in their homelands, pleading