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einforced the point that Muhammad h
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“worked on Allah's Apostle so tha
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The Unchanging Qur'an Changes The Q
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during the eighth and ninth centuri
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did not worry over such matters, wh
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Rajam be inflicted on him who commi
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telling indications that it has bee
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ut suddenly verses 238 and 239 inte
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The Non-Arabic Arabic Qur'an A Book
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“We know indeed that they say,
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Puin explains: “The Koran claims
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a person dies, his Book (of deeds)
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The Syriac influence is not restric
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To provide the new religion with it
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What the Qur'an May Have Been A Clu
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An Islamic scholar writing late in
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Luxenberg states that if Qur'an “
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symbolism of the wine of Paradise.
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Syriac connection, has revealed—c
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unbelievers, may say, “What did G
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gods except the Creator of all, nor
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in Paradise reserved exclusively fo
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who have been true in their covenan
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for them to brandish. Nor is it eve
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The First Mention of the Qur'an If
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Uthman approved did not survive, ev
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years after its birth, Islam has re
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The realm of political theology, th
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The real proliferation of material
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from long after the time he is supp
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Notes Introduction: The Full Light
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34 Ibid., 63-64 (= Patrologia Greca
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6 Al-Qastellani, X, 342 (quoted in
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7 Arthur Jeffery, “The Quest of t
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Chapter 6: The Unchanging Qur'an Ch
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29 Ibn Kathir, Tafsir Ibn Kathir, v
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49 Nevo and Koren, Crossroads to Is
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Further Reading There is a great de
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Acknowledgments I could not have wr
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Muhammad and, 2, 7, 24-28, 41, 48,
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Ephraem
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Islamic calendar, 48-49, 204 Islami
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Mufid, Sheikh al-, 81 Mughira, al-,
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Rosenthal, Franz, 154 Ruqayya (daug