Three divine persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, are each considered God but each remains distinct from the other two. Thus, the Father is God but is not the Son or the Holy Spirit while the Son… Read More ›
History
Article on ‘Islamic Teaching on the Bible’ from The Oxford Handbook of Christology
A screen print from the chapter “The Islamic Christ,” in The Oxford Handbook of Christology, 183-98, published in 2015 by OUP. Uploaded by the author Gabriel Said Reynolds (Professor of Islamic Studies, Notre Dame, USA) onto the Academia website. Click to enlarge…. Read More ›
The Origins of Suicidal Terrorism
Bombing Without Moonlight By Sheikh Abdal Hakim Murad (Tim Winter) (This was first published in 2004) 1. Amnesia Attention deficit disorder seems to flourish under conditions of late modernity. The past becomes itself more quickly. Memories, individual as well as… Read More ›
Israel – created by terrorism
Each year on 15th May, Palestinians commemorate Nakba Day (‘catastrophe’ in Arabic). Shockingly, you will hear little if anything about it in the Western media. Our governments will remain silent about this catastrophe. Here is a brief article explaining the history… Read More ›
A must read: ‘The Canonization of al-Bukhrari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon’
The book is a published edition of his PhD thesis and like all of Professor Brown’s work is readable and accessible to the layman. Read it for free by clicking on the cover.
Understanding the Qurʾan’s creative use of rhetorical strategies against orthodox Christianity and a refutation of ‘Do Christians Believe Allah is really Jesus?’ by Sam Shamoun
(Part 2) This article is the second of a series of articles (the first can be read here) that are in part a refutation of Christian polemics, and in part a discussion of recent academic articles by top experts in… Read More ›
Jonathan Brown sets the record straight about his ‘error’
In a previous post I suggested that Jonathan Brown had made an error in his latest book Misquoting Muhammad. I contacted him about this and here is his reply. He admits that his statement was ‘ambiguous’ but he does not… Read More ›
Christians at the time of Papias believed the Paraclete to be a human being (a prophet) not the Holy Spirit – UPDATE!
Christians at the time of Papias believed the Paraclete to be a human being (a prophet) not the Holy Spirit: ‘Church Fathers like Papias heard of wandering prophets who drew crowds from Europe to Asia Minor, claiming to be the… Read More ›
Understanding the Qurʾan’s creative use of rhetorical strategies against orthodox Christianity and a refutation of ‘Let The Study Quran Speak! Pt. 1’ by Sam Shamoun.
(Part 1) This article, inshallah, will be the first of a series of articles that are in part a refutation of Christian polemics, and in part a discussion of recent academic articles by top experts in the field of Quranic… Read More ›
London’s Muslim Mayor is nothing New: 1300 yrs of Muslims who Ran Major European Cities
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | The press is declaring Sadiq Khan, victor in the electoral contest for mayor of London, the “first Muslim mayor of a major European city.” They mean of course, something like ‘the first Muslim… Read More ›
“Historians Have to Make Things Up” says Thucydides.
Why the four gospels and the accounts in Acts may not be quite what they seem. Peter Enns (American Evangelical biblical scholar and theologian) explains why: Over at Mere Student, John Oliff posted on the Greek historian Thucydides’s (c.460-c.395 BC)… Read More ›
Just delivered to my office. Very juicy.
This book was cited in the recent debate ‘What Does the Quran Teach About The Bible? David Wood vs Shabir Ally’. I am gorging myself on it now. Review to follow inshallah… Sidney H. Griffith is Professor in the Department of… Read More ›
A Review of ‘Narratives of Tampering in the Earliest Commentaries on the Qurʾān’
Dr Walid Saleh specialises in the Qur’an, its history, redaction and manuscripts; the history of the reception of the Qur’an and its exegesis, at the University of Toronto, Canada. His book review below contains some startling revelations (to me anyway). For… Read More ›
How Jesus Became God – Parts 1,2 and 3
On three days in January 2016, Bart D. Ehrman gave three separate lectures to attendees, a series that highlighted his book, “How Jesus Became God.” Rev. Megan Smith opened each session for the local parishioners and pastoral staff at Coral… Read More ›
April 23rd 1616: William Shakespeare dies.
On this day in 1616, exactly 400 years ago, English playwright William Shakespeare died in Stratford-upon-Avon. To honour the memory of this greatest of Englishmen it seems fitting to rejoice in the Bard’s (perhaps unwitting) Islamic understanding of God and… Read More ›
Today is St George’s Day in England.
But do Englishmen know that England’s saint is a Syrian? We ought to be opening up our country to Syria’s martyrs.
A 7th Century War On Terror – By Adnan Rashid – Hittin Institute
‘What is there now, I ask of delight in this world? Everywhere we observe strife; fields are depopulated, the land has returned to solitude…And yet the blows of Divine justice have no end, because among the blows those guilty of… Read More ›
Dr Jonathan Brown – The Message of Peace: Spread by the Sword?
Published on 11 Apr 2016 Muslim Students’ Association – University of Maine, Orono – Islamic Awareness Week 2016 – Dr. Jonathan Brown – “The Message of Peace: Spread by the Sword”
The one understandable goal of ‘Islamic State’ the media (except the Guardian) will not tell you about
reblogged from todays Guardian Lawrence of Arabia wouldn’t have been surprised by the rise of Isis. TE Lawrence was always angry about the British betrayal of the Arabs in the Sykes-Picot agreement. A century on, the borders it established are falling… Read More ›
‘Join us for our Solemn Liturgy at 3pm and celebrate the Lord’s saving death which has won our salvation.’
Today Churches all over the world are inviting Christians to ‘celebrate the Lord’s saving death which has won our salvation.’ So says my local Catholic Church St. James’s, Spanish Place in London where I often worshiped as a Christian. Muslims, of… Read More ›
Today is Good Friday – Tim Stanley and The Testimony of Flavius Josephus
Tim Stanley is a British historian and writer for The Telegraph newspaper. He is a devout Roman Catholic. On this significant date in the Christian calendar Tim Stanley posted about ‘historical evidence’ for Jesus’s life on Twitter: The Testimony of… Read More ›
The First Muslims in England
reblogged from today’s BBC Magazine “True Faith and Mahomet” a needlework hanging at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire Sixteenth-century Elizabethan England has always had a special place in the nation’s understanding of itself. But few realise that it was also the… Read More ›
Psalm 110:1 – Christians take note
A Psalm of David: The LORD says to my lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.” Dale Martin is professor of New Testament at Yale University
Professor Jonathan Brown: Is there Justice Outside God’s Law? SOAS, University of London
Happily this amazing lecture was filmed. It is a MUST watch for those interested in the subject. As I recall, the lecture theatre was totally packed out. Is there Justice Outside God’s Law?: Making Sense of the Boundaries of the… Read More ›
This evening I attended a wonderful talk by a top scholar of Islam
Is there Justice Outside God’s Law?: Making Sense of the Boundaries of the Sharīʿah in Islamic Civilization by Professor Jonathan Brown, Georgetown University, USA. Lecture was at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. ‘This presentation will explore how… Read More ›
Earliest known medieval Muslim graves are discovered in France
Barely a hundred years after the death of the Prophet (salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam), the Muslims set out to spread Islam in all areas of the world. In what seems like a miracle (and is believed to be one… Read More ›
“How Did Jesus Become God?” – Bart Ehrman and Michael Bird in Dialogue + Q&A
Streamed live on 12 Feb 2016. This video needs to be cut down and re-posted. Intro: 29:29 Ehrman’s opening: 34:00 Bird’s opening: 1:25:50 Q&A: 2:11:44
Jews, Christians, & Muslims co-existed peacefully in Palestine for hundreds of years before Europeans showed up.
Proof that Islamic civilisation was considerably more tolerant and civilised than the horrendous mess we see in Palestine today. We have the West to thank for that.
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