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Prophet Muhammad
The life, character and mission of Muhammad, the final messenger of God.
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Blasphemy and insults to the Prophet: 4 facts
What the Quran says about mockery, how the Prophet answered insults, what Hanafi law held and where Pakistan’s law began. 4 facts.
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Muhammad’s raids, Badr and the conquest of Mecca: 6 facts
The caravan raids, the battle at Badr and the entry into Mecca: 6 facts from the early sources, with the critics’ strongest points conceded.
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Was Muhammad illiterate? 5 answers on ummi, Iqra and clots
What ummi can mean, what Quran 29:48 claims, what Iqra asked, what alaq means and how the reports of his writing are weighed.
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6 facts about Muhammad’s marriages: Zaynab, Safiyya and others
Zaynab, Safiyya, Juwayriyah, Rayhana, Mariya and verse 33:50: 6 facts from the Quran, hadith and early biographies.
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7 women in the Prophet’s life who shaped Islam
Aminah, Khadija, Fatima, Umm Salama, Aisha, Hafsa and Mariya: 7 women in the Prophet’s life and what each one did. Read their stories.
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Did Muhammad fail as a prophet? 5 answers on miracles, signs and the Al-Rum prophecy
Critics say Muhammad showed no miracles, made a failed prophecy and might have been epileptic. 5 answers from the record. Read them.
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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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6 answers to the claim that the Prophet died from poisoning
Polemicists say the poisoning at Khaybar disproves Muhammad’s prophethood. 6 answers from the sources. Read them.
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Who wrote the Quran? 5 answers to the authorship claim
Revelation or composition? How the claim was argued from the start, how the text was fixed and what each side can and cannot show. 5 answers.
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Did Muhammad know the Hebrew prophets? 6 answers from the Quran
The Quran quotes Psalm 37, the Torah’s law of retribution and Ezekiel’s teaching, and names Jonah’s father. 6 answers. Read on.
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Deuteronomy 18 and the Paraclete: 4 points on Muhammad in the Bible
The prophet like Moses, the Comforter in John and Ibn Ishaq’s Syriac source: the Muslim case and the Christian reply. 4 points.
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Who saw Gabriel? 5 answers on witnesses to revelation
Nobody was in the cave with Muhammad, critics say, so why believe it was Gabriel? 5 answers on witnesses. Read the case.