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Criticism of religion. The Quran is viewed to be the scriptural foundation of Islam and is believed by Muslims to have been sent down by Allah (God) and revealed to Muhammad by the angel Jabreel ( Gabriel ). The Quran has been subject to criticism both in the sense of being the subject of an interdisciplinary field of study where secular ...
The question is whether it simply isn’t true that the Qur’an is more reliable than the New Testament. What the questioner almost always means by that is that the ancient manuscripts of the Qur’an tend to be amazingly similar to one another. Virtually identical up and down the line. Scribes kept it the way it was, without changing it.
As long ago as 1977, John Wansbrough of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London wrote that subjecting the Koran to ''analysis by the instruments and techniques of biblical criticism ...
9780739142912. Textual Criticism and Qurʼān Manuscripts is a 2011 book on the textual criticism of the Quran by Keith E. Small, a researcher and lecturer at the Centre for Islamic Studies and Muslim–Christian Relations at the London School of Theology . The book examines a small portion of the holy book of Islam, the Quran —specifically ...
Criticism of Islam, including of Islamic beliefs, practices, and doctrines, can take many forms, including academic critiques, political criticism, religious criticism, and personal opinions. Criticism of Islam has been present since its formative stages, with early disapprovals recorded from Christians, Jews, and some former Muslims like Ibn ...
For most Muslims past and present, the Qur’an constitutes the literal transcript of God’s revelatory address to Muhammad, his contemporaries, and humanity at large. It would of course be dangerously fallacious to suggest that an adequate understanding of Islam, in all its historical, regional, and confessional variety and complexity, could ...
Introduction. Contemporary analysis of the Qurʾan is marked by a significant turn from source- and historical-critical into textual analytical approaches, allowing more than ever before for the literary and linguistic components of the text to be uncovered using systematic applications of the methodology derived from contemporary literary theory and linguistics.
