The Foundations of Religious Belief in the Qur’an
In a recent poll on this website, visitors were asked what they thought “Religious belief is based on,” and they were given five options to choose the answer from where only one answer can be chosen...
View ArticleThe Meaning of “Fiqh” in the Qur’an and Its Position in Islam
In Islamic sciences, the term “fiqh” has developed the strictly legal meaning of “studying Shari’a or ‘Islamic law’,” which I briefly explained in my article “Shari’a,” “Fiqh,” and “Usul al-Fiqh” in...
View ArticleDoes the Qur’an Speak About an Expanding Universe?
As the unchanged and unerring Word of God, the Qur’an has naturally been considered by Muslims as containing miracles. Many scientific claims have been identified in the Qur’an. Of course, any such...
View ArticleThe Importance of Abrogation
“Naskh,” or “abrogation” as it is translated, has been the subject of numerous studies by Muslim scholars down the centuries. As the mechanism describing how divine rulings from the Qur’an and the...
View ArticleAbrogation from Muslim and Non-Muslim Perspectives
The overwhelming majority of Muslim scholars, past and modern, have accepted abrogation in both the Qur’an and the Sunna as an indisputable fact. Only a very small minority has rejected Qur’anic...
View ArticleAn Overview of “Abrogation in the Qur’an and Islamic Law: A Critical Study of...
This is a detailed chapter-by-chapter summary of the book “Abrogation in the Qur’an and Islamic Law: A Critical Study of the Concept of ‘Naskh’ and its Impact.” The summary explains the subject of each...
View ArticleThe Realization of the Foreknowledge of God in the Visible World
The Qur'an describes Allah as having full and perfect knowledge of the past, present, and future. There are also verses that seem to suggest that Allah comes to know about certain things as they...
View ArticleIs the Mushaf a complete record of the Qur’an? The controversy of abrogation
This is a summary of the third Abdullah Yusuf Ali Memorial Lecture which I will deliver. This is the title of the lecture: “Is the Mushaf a complete record of the Qur’an? The controversy of abrogation.”
View ArticleIntroduction to “The First and Last Revelations of the Qur’an”
This is the introduction to my book "Introduction" to "The First and Last Revelations of the Qur'an." It explains the background to the questions about the first and last verse and chapter of the...
View ArticleSimilarities and Differences Between the Qur’an and Jewish and Christian...
One observation that is often made by critics of the Qur’an is that at times its historical account of a story, such as the story of Prophet Moses or Jesus, has similarities with Jewish and Christian...
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