Listicle Topic: Faith & Reason
Arguments for belief, and answers to the objections raised against it.
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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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The Satanic Verses report: 5 facts about a disputed story
The chains, the grading and the Quranic text: 5 facts about the report of the Satanic Verses.
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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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Schacht, isnads and the dating of hadith: 8 answers
Hadith were forged and Muslim scholars said so first, but writing began early, chains were tested and the quoted figures mislead.
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Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Hisham, Tabari: how reliable is the Sira? 5 facts
How the biography of the Prophet reached us, what each compiler did and how historians weigh it: 5 facts.
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The revisionist case: 6 answers on manuscripts, coins and Mecca
Early manuscripts, coins, inscriptions and the location of Mecca: 6 answers on what the revisionist case shows and what it does not.
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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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Does a preserved text prove it is true? 5 answers
Accurate copying shows continuity, not truth. 5 answers on what preservation establishes for the Quran and for other scriptures.
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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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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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The sheep that ate the verse: 5 points on A’isha’s report
One narrator, a disputed grade and two classical replies: 5 points on the report of the sheet under A’isha’s pillow.
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The seven ahruf, the 1924 Cairo edition and the stoning verse: 10 points
Seven modes versus seven readings, the ten readings, the personal codices, the conditions for an accepted reading, the Cairo printing and the stoning verse. 10 points.