An excellent lecture by Dr. Ali Ataie!
Scholarship
Prophet & Messiahs in the Community Rule: A Preliminary Investigation into Immediate and Wider Questions
Br. Usman Sheikh has continued to publish some very brilliant academic papers from his time at Heythrop College at the University of London. Here is the abstract for his latest publication: This study will consider a popular text appearing in… Read More ›
Paul’s View of the Law in Romans 7: An Engagement with E. P. Sanders
Br. Usman Sheikh has recently published a fantastic research paper on Paul’s view of the law in Romans 7, he analyses Paul’s attitude towards the law with respect to his soteriological outlook while contrasting these views with that of E.P… Read More ›
The Criterion of Embarrassment and the Women of Luke
The Criterion of Embarrassment is an oft-used historical tool by those who seek to authenticate and validate the New Testament Gospels insofar as they are understood as historical literature. However, a thoughtful review of this historical tool in light of… Read More ›
Response to James White on Qur’an 10:94
In a short clip, spanning roughly 20 minutes long, Dr. James White sought to address my article on Qur’an 10:94. He generally had three main points of dispute: That you have to “jump” from Qur’an 10:94 to Qur’an 46:10 to… Read More ›
The Fate of Non-Muslims: Perspectives on Salvation Outside of Islam
By Dr. Jonathan A. C. Brown Abstract What is the fate of non-Muslims after death? This essay lays out three different answers that Muslims have proposed regarding non-Muslims who have had the message of Islam reliably presented to them (since… Read More ›
A Few Brief Words on N.T. Wright’s: The Resurrection of the Son of God
A Guest Article by Andrew Livingston If there are any people out there more often and more confidently quoted by Christian apologists and their fans than N.T. Wright, there can’t be all that many of them. [1] And there is… Read More ›
John Calvin on Errors in the Scriptures (Quotations from Calvin’s Commentaries)
In this long article the author demonstrates with many evidences from Calvin’s own writings that he recognised that the Bible contains ‘intentional and unintentional misquotations, technical inaccuracies, historical errors, scientific errors, cultural accommodations and even theological errors’! Contemporary followers of Calvin… Read More ›
Textual Criticism Versus Evangelical Beliefs
There has been a trend of late where evangelical apologists are trying to normalize the use of textual criticism in their understanding of the New Testament. This however, leaves them in an untenable position trying to balance the divergence of… Read More ›
Contemporary Issues: Is the Original Qur’an Preserved? – Dr Joseph Lumbard
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 ›
How was the Quran preserved?
How was the Quran first put together? How did it come assume the form in which we have it today? In this video, Professor Joseph E.B. Lumbard discusses the understanding of the collection of the Quran in Islamic sources. This video… Read More ›
Dialogue Today: Dr. Shabir Ally and Mr. Abdu Murray
This event begins at 7 PM EST (Toronto, NY, Atlanta), which will be at 12 AM GMT tonight for those in the UK. The live-streaming link can be found below: Thanks to Mr. Nick Hill of Toronto for providing the… Read More ›
What is the Best English Translation of the Quran?
Which translation of the Quran should one read if they are interested in understanding the text and have limited or no knowledge of Arabic? In this video, Dr. Lumbard discusses four translations that are widely available today.
New paper: The Moral Problem of Slavery
Jonathan Brown is an American scholar of Islamic studies. Since 2012, he has been associate professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. In 2014, he was appointed Chair of Islamic Civilization. He has authored several books… Read More ›
Jesus, the Law, and a “New” Covenant
A superb educational lecture by a top New Testament scholar. It mentions many things most Christians do not know about the real historical Jesus and the early church.
A Muslim’s Response to Mythicists
A Guest Article by Andrew Livingston Christ mythicism is the notion that there never even was such a person as Jesus of Nazareth. The whole thing, right down to the very existence of the man himself, was pure myth from… Read More ›
The Passing of Shaykh Muhammad Mustafa al ‘Azami
It is with a heavy heart that I convey the sad news of the passing away of my teacher, Sheikh Muhammad Mustafa Al-A’zami (rahimahullah). The Sheikh was one of the world’s premier scholars of Hadith, and received his education at… Read More ›
The Changes to the First Words in the New Testament
Last month I published a paper on how the very first words in the New Testament evolved over time. It was entitled, “The Inscriptio of the Gospel Attributed to Matthew.” Today we have produced a 2 minute video that simplifies… Read More ›
Spending Time with Dr. Shabir Ally
Over this summer I had the opportunity and privilege of learning from and teaching alongside Dr. Shabir Ally. To be honest it was quite a surreal experience. Here is someone I had been learning from for a number of years… Read More ›
A marvel in the Qur’an disclosed on twitter from IQSA17 Conference
This tweet from a participant at the ongoing International Qur’anic Studies Association conference in the USA. Do the scholars there realise the implications of this observation? Consider this: an illiterate uneducated Arab trader from an obscure backwater of the Arabian peninsula could… Read More ›
The programme of the forthcoming International Qur’anic Studies Association annual meeting
Here is a fascinating glimpse into the programme of the forthcoming International Qur’anic Studies Association annual meeting. Lots of juicy stuff. Click link below. IQSA 2017
John and the Synoptics
In this video, Professor Mark Goodacre helps us understand John’s use of the Synoptics. Mark Goodacre is a New Testament scholar and Professor at Duke University. He has written extensively on the Synoptic Problem; that is, the origins of the… Read More ›
Books bought/not bought from Foyles in London today
In the end I didn’t buy this book as my Arabic is not good enough to follow the discussion, but it is a new scholarly work that a must read for those who can. As an undergraduate studying the Bible… Read More ›
Revisiting the British Library
This afternoon I visited the Asian & African Studies Reading Room at British Library. Its’ majestic. The walls are lined with paintings of distinguished notables (absolutely no idea who they are). I read further articles from the standard Western academic… Read More ›
From Petra back to Makka – From “Pibla” back to Qibla
Crackpot theories promoted by hate preacher Jay Smith and his Speakers Corner disciples are here exposed for the utter falsehood they are by a real scholar of the period. Enjoy. A critique of Dan Gibson, Early Islamic Qiblas: A Survey… Read More ›
Oh happy days: I’ve got a British Library Reader Pass!
I wanted to do some research on how top Western scholarship understands what the Qur’an teaches about the scriptures of the People of the Book (the Jews and Christians). This question is a storm centre for Christian-Muslim polemics. Evangelical apologists… Read More ›
The Final Words of Jesus by David Wood
Special Guest Speaker, David Wood helps us understand the final words of Jesus in the New Testament. If the video does not show, please click here to view. The New American Bible states on this passage (as provided by Br…. Read More ›
A REBUTTAL TO DAN BARKER’S “LOSING FAITH IN FAITH: FROM PREACHER TO ATHEIST”
The following is a guest post by author Andrew Livingston. What follows is a revised version of an article originally appearing in the now defunct Taqwa Magazine. You. So it was you all along. And all of this time I… Read More ›
A primer on the how the Bible’s violent verses have been used to justify terrorism and genocide
This is a compelling read! This book by the historian professor Philip Jenkins will shock you into seeing how the Bible’s violent passages have been used by evangelical Christians and Catholics to support the violent ethnic cleansing of Native Americans… Read More ›
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