Muhammad, the Qur\'an & Islam

Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islam Muhammad's polemic in this section is decidedly anti-polytheist. Rhetorically Muhammad asked his ...

Muhammad: Meccan Opposition that his revelations had been given him by a "spirit" (cf. Qur'an 26:193).^129 The blessing in 19:15 ...

Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islam this sura may have been accepted by the Abyssinians can only be inferred from the accounts of the ...

Muhammad: Meccan Opposition According to Sira traditions, the Meccans were so disconcerted by the Abyssinian emigration and the ...

Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islam of these. Attempts to discredit the chains of transmitters (^174 isnads) as unreliable, together ...

Muhammad: Meccan Opposition made his original request for wisdom (cf. I Kgs. 3:6f). The notions^183 of a form being seated on So ...

Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islam Muhammad figures as Abraham and the Meccans as Abraham's pagan audience (vv. 25f). Since no such ...

Muhammad: Meccan Opposition Sonship of Jesus. Moreover, Muhammad's motivation to deny Christ's Sonship could also hardly have be ...

Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islam 72:7 this people is said to have denied that God would resurrect the dead, in a manner similar to ...

Muhammad: Meccan Opposition Mecca, whereas another shows at least some of them as returnin^215 g to Abyssinia. After the ending ...

Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islam jinn (cf. 37:10; 72:9; 15:18, etc.). The vv. 6f relate about the judgment of unbelievers and the ...

Muhammad: Meccan Opposition (vv. 101f) and believers (vv. 111f) is described. Some of the verses of this sura are similar to Bib ...

Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islam a sign for all the world. In the vv. 95f Gog and Magog appear to be^245 mentioned in connection w ...

Muhammad: Meccan Opposition v. 40, and these are all to serve as examples to the Meccans (vv. 41f). The vv. 47f depict God as th ...

Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islam Qur'an 17Qur'an 17Qur'an 17Qur'an 17 begins with Muhammad's night journey from the holy mosque (K ...

Muhammad: Meccan Opposition seem to refer to the Meccan rejection of the Resurrection. The vv. 103f give a very revealing narrat ...

Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islam Muhammad seems to have gotten his information about her by means of Jewish or Christian accounts ...

Muhammad: Meccan Opposition polytheists, which some Sira traditions mention. The vv. 28f contrast the^284 destinies of sinners a ...

Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islam various peoples are destroyed as much for their rejection of the messenger's person, as for their ...

Muhammad: Meccan Opposition Most of the strange foreign vocabulary of this period also appears to have come from Christian sourc ...