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Jesus: The Muslim
Christian theologian Vicky Beeching hears the stories about Jesus the Muslim from Cambridge scholar Tim Winter (a.k.a. Abdal Hakim Murad).
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Jay Smith On Carbon Dating…
American missionary Jay Smith has been interpreting the Birmingham Manuscript’s dating to claim that the Qur’an pre-dates the Prophet (peace be upon him). In this video, Br. Mansur confronts him and asks him where he gets his wrong data from!… Read More ›
Debunking myths on early Qur’an manuscripts
I think it is time for Jay Smith to retire back to the US from whence he came. But while he is here we can all enjoy seeing him being refuted, in public, again, and again, by people who actually… Read More ›
How should rationalists deal with dogmatism? – The Case of the Birmingham Quran Pages
From the website of Dr Jonathan Brown (published today). One of the reasons I do not to write about early Islamic history is that I find it very difficult to manage the constant clash of faith claims and appeals to… Read More ›
My servants
When My servants ask thee concerning Me, I am indeed close (to them), I listen to the prayer of every supplicant when he calleth on Me: Let them also, with a will, Listen to My call, and believe in Me:… Read More ›
Dr Jonathan AC Brown – Scholar’s Chair Interview
just posted on Youtube
God-breathed error
Professor Ehrman makes a good point below. As a committed evangelical Christian I wrestled with the problem of Paul’s error for a very long time. But seriously folks he was just a man who got some things very wrong, and… Read More ›
Jesus and The Law – Dr Shabir Ally
A good talk by Dr Shabir
‘A RESPONSE TO SMITH, SPENCER, QUREISHI AND OTHERS ON BIRMINGHAM QUR’AN MANUSCRIPT FIND’
Here is Ijaz Ahmed’s response to Jay Smith’s article that I reproduced above. It is an excellent deconstruction. reposted from Calling Christians We’ll begin by responding to Jay Smith’s ridiculous email, most of which was plagiarized from Spencer’s Jihad Watch… Read More ›
An American missionary based in London criticises Professor Bart Ehrman on the Quran.
Jay Smith is an American missionary based in London who campaigns full-time against Muslims and Islam, especially at Speakers Corner where his tirades against Islam are notorious. I was sent the following article written by J. Smith, hot off the… Read More ›
Lessons to learn when comparing the Quranic and New Testament manuscripts
The following article has just been posted on the Facebook page of Bart D. Ehrman, a leading American New Testament scholar. Ehrman’s work focuses on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the development of early Christianity. Those… Read More ›
Is the Original Qur’an Preserved?
Orientalist scholarship since the 19th century has proposed various theories that seek to disqualify the Muslim narrative on the authenticity of the Qur’anic compilation and the preservation of the text. The recent discovery of early Qur’an manuscripts in San’a has… Read More ›
‘Oldest’ Quran fragments found in Birmingham University
The BBC reports today: ‘What may be the world’s oldest fragments of the Quran have been found by the University of Birmingham. Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest in… Read More ›
The most popular book of all time isn’t Harry Potter
Today’s London Metro has this story: ‘It’s not exactly a ripping yarn, but the Quran is the most popular book of all time. The religious text has been translated into 50 different languages, has nearly 400 editions and more than… Read More ›
Not only Muslims, but Christians need to be reached, too
A fascinating article by Kermit Zarley published June 4, 2015 My friend Ben Witherington III posts today here at patheos about the book entitled Dreams and Visions: Is Jesus Awakening the Muslim World? (Thomas Nelson, 2012). Ben says it “is one of the more moving… Read More ›
Some reflections on Jesus and the Quran
The American anti-Islam Christian apologist Sam Shamoun recently issued a challenge to me concerning the Quranic narratives about Jesus. He writes: ‘if you are consistent then doesn’t it trouble you that no bonafide NT scholar or historian would ever… Read More ›
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