Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics
25. Were there Jews and Christians living in Arabia before Islam? Though most of the tribes in the ...
well have been the basis for Muhammad’s mistaken belief that the Trinity consisted of Allah, Mary, and J ...
even referring to them as ‘‘apes and swine.’’[16] Nor did the Prophet restrict his response to Jewish scorn a ...
27. Why was Muhammad’s prophetic claim rejected by the Jews and Christians of his time? Muhammad’s failure to u ...
however, Muslim tradition began to hold that his message was a miracle in itself, primarily because ...
In fact, in classical Arabic, omeyeen never referred to illiterates or to illiteracy. It refers to non-Jewish p ...
same mix of laws and narratives about God’s dealings with His people. But the Koran is unlike any book of ...
Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and, as one Koranic passage lists them, ‘‘David and Solomon, Job and Joseph and ...
Muslims strongly deny the existence of any versions of the Koran other than the one they ...
In 1972, construction workers who were restoring the Great Mosque of Sana’a in Yemen chanced upon a cach ...
name used for Jesus in the Koran is Isa, which actually corresponds more closely to Esau, the ol ...
does in the infancy narratives of the heretical gospels, Jesus in the Koran even speaks in His cradle.[23] Al ...
In line with His prophetic mission, Jesus is also known as a messenger (Rasul) of Allah.[26] Ther ...
Absolutely. The Koran condemns those who consider Christ divine: ‘‘In blasphemy indeed are those that say tha ...
to Christ’s divinity. Allah’s ‘‘Word’’ is actually part of Him and His divine nature, a manifestation of ...
than Him. In its affirmation of Jesus as ‘‘a spirit proceeding from’’ Allah, the Koran contains another tanta ...
Tacitus, and others (see question 39). Jesus’ death and resurrection are acts essential to Hi ...
Josephus, the great Jewish historian, in his Jewish Antiquities. The Koran does contain some hints tha ...
not Muhammad, will return is, of course, another hint of the Christian theology that underlies so much ...
said: ‘O Mary! Allah has chosen you and purified you — chosen you above the women of all nations’ ...
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