Muhammad, the Qur\'an & Islam

Muhammad, the Qur’an & Islam N. A. Newman Interdisciplinary Biblical Research Institute Hatfield, Pennsylvania USA ...

Muhammad, the Qur’an & Islam Copyright 1996 by N. A. Newman Revised Edition Published by the Interdisciplinary Biblical Rese ...

iii Table of Contents Pre-Islamic Arabia Introduction vii The Sources for Muhammad's Biography Muhammad: Birth to Ministry Muha ...

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v Key to Abbreviations for works referenced ECMD The Early Christian-Muslim Dialogue EI^2 Encyclopedia of Islam (2nd edition) GQ ...

vii Introduction Over the centuries, much research has been done on the life of Muhammad, the text of the Qur'an and the develop ...

Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islam viii validity for Hamlet, and his audience certainly expects neither of these. 2) As a piece of e ...

Introduction ix not only exchange John the Baptist for Zachariah, but they also maintain that the Babylonians invaded Jerusalem ...

Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islam x were more acquainted with the non-Arabic languages of the Middle East, the Bible and Judeo-Chri ...

Introduction xi As will be shown in the pages that follow, there is rather solid evidence which shows that the Qur'an has not be ...

Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islam xii [3] See Lightfoot in Lost Books, p. 36, n. 1, who references Taanit 69 of the Jerusalem Talmu ...

Introduction xiii [11] See The (Coptic) History of Joseph the Carpenter, chapter 2, as given in Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 8, p. ...

Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islam xiv of the Qur'an, were too impractical for this present work. The recent publishing of Bell's lo ...

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Pre-Islamic Arabia Compared with the lands in the fertile crescent, the Arabian peninsula was deficient in agricultural and usab ...

Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islam The Christians The intermittent persecutions of Nestorians and Monophysites, resulting from the C ...

Pre-Islamic Arabia Groups of Christian pilgrims from Yemen on their way to Jerusalem and Sinai must have been a common sight for ...

Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islam that two Arabs had aspired to be prophets before Muhammad. The little^40 information which seems ...