Listicle Topic: Comparative Religion

Geiger, Caetani, Jeffery, Goitein and Armstrong: 5 Western scholars who shaped the study of Islam, what they argued and where Muslims disagree.

A recent polemic reads a hadith about al-Zutt as sexual assault. 5 reasons the reading collapses. Read the philology.

Polemicists say the poisoning at Khaybar disproves Muhammad’s prophethood. 6 answers from the sources. Read them.

The Catholic bishops’ own Bible says 2 Peter was likely written in Peter’s name by a later author. 5 admissions. Read them.

How the Quran and the New Testament reached us: 5 differences in transmission that decide the reliability debate. Read them.

Six answers on the claimed Jewish and Christian sources of Quranic stories: dates, direction of influence and the Muslim response.

Six alleged historical slips, from Nimrod and Talut to Job and Pharaoh’s punishment, checked against what the verses say and what commentators added.

Praise, disagreement and the command to dialogue: 7 answers on what the Quran says about Christians.

What the verses on apes and pigs say, who they address, and how commentators read them: 6 facts.

The Night Journey, the Buraq, a talking donkey and the Bible’s own miracles: 5 miracle stories critics mock, and what the sources say.

Orientalists say the Quran’s Haman is borrowed from Esther, 1,000 years too early. 5 answers, including the Egyptian evidence.