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She also alleges that the Quran associates Jews with interconfessional strife and rivalry (Quran 2:113), [300] the Jewish belief that they alone are beloved of God (Quran 5:18), and that only they will achieve salvation (Quran 2:111). [301]
Criticism of Islam can take many forms, including academic critiques, political criticism, religious criticism, and personal opinions. Subjects of criticism include Islamic beliefs, practices, and doctrines.
Handful of Islamic scholars, bucking threats of violence for questioning words of Koran, are quietly investigating origins of Muslim holy book, offering radically new theories about text's...
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 be derived exclusively, or even primarily, from the Qur’an.
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.
According to Islamic tradition, which criticism may question or contradict, the Quran followed a passage from heaven down to the angel Gabriel (Jabreel) who revealed it in the seventh century CE over 23 years to a Hejazi Arab trader, Muhammad, who became one of the Prophets of Islam. [3]
This article, after tracing a precise classification of the exegetical trend known as iʿjāz ʿilmī, summarizes and discusses the criticism leveled at it and examines how the “scientific interpretation” of the Qur’ān is liable to blend with pseudoscience and conspiracy theories to the detriment of a solid harmonization of science and ...
