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According to the traditional Islamic narrative, by the time of Uthman's caliphate, there was a perceived need for clarification of Qur'an reading. The holy book had often been spread to others orally by Muslims who had memorized the Quran in its entirety , but now "sharp divergence" had appeared in recitation of the book among Muslims. [7]
Quranic studies employs the historical-critical method (HCM) as its primary methodological apparatus, which is the approach that emphasizes a process that "delays any assessment of scripture’s truth and relevance until after the act of interpretation has been carried out". [1]
The Kitāb al-Fihrist (Arabic: كتاب الفهرست) is a compendium of the knowledge and literature of tenth-century Islam referencing approx. 10,000 books and 2,000 authors. [14] This crucial source of medieval Arabic -Islamic literature, informed by various ancient Hellenic and Roman civilizations, preserves from his own hand the names of ...
The history of the Quran, the holy book of Islam, is the timeline ranging from the inception of the Quran during the lifetime of Muhammad (believed to have received the Quran through revelation between 610 and 632 CE [1]), to the emergence, transmission, and canonization of its written copies.
(2004) The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, W.W.Norton. ISBN 0-7432-6809-1; Harris Sam, Maajid Nawaz, Islam and the Future of Tolerance (2015) Hitchens, Christopher (2007). God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, New York: Twelve Books, ISBN 9780446579803. (Chapter nine assesses the religion of Islam) Manji ...
[1] Until the early 1970s, [7] non-Muslim Islamic scholars—while not accepting accounts of divine intervention—did accept its origin story [8] "in most of its details", [9] and accepted the reliability of tafsir (commentaries on the Quran), [10] hadith (accounts of what the Islamic prophet Muhammad approved or disapproved of), and sira ...
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam is a compilation of lectures delivered by Muhammad Iqbal on Islamic philosophy which got published in 1930. These lectures were delivered by Iqbal in Madras, Hyderabad, and Aligarh. The last chapter, "Is Religion Possible", was added to the book from the 1934 Oxford Edition onwards.
[6] What he compiled/did Al-Dhahabī mentioned the following of Ibn Mājah's works: [4] Sunan Ibn Mājah: one of the six canonical collections of hadith; Kitāb al-Tafsīr: a book of Qur'an exegesis; Kitāb al-Tārīkh: a book of history or, more likely, a listing of hadith transmitters; The last two, though praised by scholars, have been lost. [7]