June 23, 2013 agoerner
Do Christian beliefs about the Bible and Muslim beliefs about the Quran put them in a circular stalemate? Christians believe the Bible is the Word of God. Muslims believe the Quran is the Word of God. The Quran is God's...
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February 4, 2013 agoerner
“If you pick up any English book written by Muslims that talks about Islamic beliefs these days they will have a claim in that the Quran has been perfectly preserved—and it’s wrong. And we have every right and we have...
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January 28, 2013 agoerner
"When the Caliph Othman fixed a text of the Koran and destroyed all the old copies which differed from his standard, he provided for the uniformity of subsequent manuscripts at the cost of their historical foundation. A classical text which...
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January 21, 2013 agoerner
Does the Arabic Quran perfectly preserve what Muhammad recited? It depends on who you ask. Christians sometimes give a fairly negative answer to this question: For many centuries Muslims have been taught to believe that the Qur'an has been preserved...
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January 14, 2013 agoerner
[caption id="attachment_13019" align="alignright" width="175"] Muhammad Mustafa Al-Azami[/caption] The following is a Muslim explanation of multiple readings in the Quran (sometimes called variants) taken from Muhammad Mustafa al-Azami, The History of the Quranic Text from Revelation to Compilation, 153-155. ((I have omitted most of...
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