Tag
Polemics
Common attacks on Islam, answered from the sources.
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How an ex-Muslim blog persuades: 5 findings from a Malaysian study
A Malaysian study analysed how an ex-Muslim blog won readers, and which replies failed. 5 findings for Muslims. Read on.
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Was the first revelation demonic? 6 answers from the sources
The cave of Hira, Khadija and Waraqa, and the report of fear: 6 answers on the claims of demonic origin and epilepsy.
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The camel urine hadith: 5 things the report says
The hadith of the men of Ukl and Uraynah, read in full: what it says, what it does not command and what scholars make of it. 5 points.
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5 things wrong with the al-Zutt allegation
A recent polemic reads a hadith about al-Zutt as sexual assault. 5 reasons the reading collapses. Read the philology.
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Contradictions in the Quran? 4 points on the cases critics cite
Six days or eight, a thousand years or fifty thousand, and who takes the soul: the classical answers. 4 points. Read on.
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4 facts about the claim of grammatical errors in the Quran
The challenge to match the Quran, the report from A’isha and the verses critics cite, 4:162 and 20:63, read with al-Tabari.
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Talmud, midrash and apocrypha: 6 answers on borrowing claims
Six answers on the claimed Jewish and Christian sources of Quranic stories: dates, direction of influence and the Muslim response.
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6 answers to the claim that the Quran gets its history wrong
Six alleged historical slips, from Nimrod and Talut to Job and Pharaoh’s punishment, checked against what the verses say and what commentators added.
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5 answers to the claim that Haman is a Quranic mistake
Orientalists say the Quran’s Haman is borrowed from Esther, 1,000 years too early. 5 answers, including the Egyptian evidence.