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Seeking and Believing in the Historical Muhammad: PART 3

Interpreting the Prophetic Traditions The “Problem” with Some Sirah Narrations The interpretation of the Satanic Verses incident touches directly on the nature of the Prophet’s revelations as understood by many traditional Muslims. The concept of infallibility is assumed to the extent that ascribing even minor sins to the Prophet (pbuh) are considered blasphemous. For these […]

Seeking and Believing in the Historical Muhammad: PART 2

Understanding the Prophetic Traditions “How Does Truth Happen?” Shahab Ahmad, author of the thought-provoking book – Before Orthodoxy – starts his dissertation with this question to the reader. He uses this generic question to drive to his specific question: given the diversity of Islam, “how does a single position come to be universally established as […]

Women at the Mosque Part 2

I would say one of the biggest obstacles I have with Islam is the treatment of women. There are other hesitations I have and some as well regarding Christianity. Regarding your response about women in the mosque, has it always been a precedent going back to the time of Muhammad that women, for the most […]

The Legal Validity of the Sunnah

Nobody in early Islamic history denied the legal validity of the Sunnah مَنْ يُطِعِ الرَّسُولَ فَقَدْ أَطَاعَ اللَّهَ Whoever obeys the Messenger is obeying God. (4:80) When the archangel Gabriel revealed a new passage of the Qur’an to the Prophet (pbuh), he also instructed where that passage belongs. Some passages were before, some were after, and […]

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