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German Qur'anic scholar Angelika Neuwrith

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“The ease with which the modern West has macerated religion from morals should make us suspicious about the alleged infancy of its atheist tradition. Perhaps, for centuries, the process was progressing underground. With Islam, the traditional liaisons between religion and morals, and between ethics and law, remain firm. For Muslims, ‘Muhammad is a good man’ and ‘Muhammad is a Muslim’ are virtually indistinguishable. Modern Arabic and most Islamic languages, unlike modern European languages such as English and French, are still devotional languages. (Modern French, unlike modern English, does, however, retain its poetic and romantic resources).

“It is difficult to express cynicism about religion or religion-derived morals in any Islamic language. This differs from English where we face the opposite problem: we are unable to make claims such as ‘He is a pious man’ sound anything but mocking. The moral language of Christianity is now decrepit and abused; only a poet-saint could renew the religious employment of English in order to invigorate the cultural project of rescuing words such as ‘sin’ and ‘virtue’ for their original and intended senses. Even the word‘Christianity’ has unction about it as do ‘righteous’ ‘Jesus’, and ‘salvation’. Religious life languishes in the West while intellectual life flourishes and reaches new heights. By contrast, even the most secularized Muslim would not use ‘Muhammad’ as an expletive in casual conversation. It would be an embarrassing attempt at blasphemy.”

(Dr Shabbir Akhtar, The Quran and the Secular Mind: A Philosophy of Islam, 108)

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Jinn Possessions, Blood Rituals & Black Magic | The Last Days | Ep 4

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'The first thing that was revealed of it [the Qur’an] was one of the mufaṣṣal suras containing mention of paradise and hellfire. Then, when people had come into Islam (more fully), the lawful and the prohibited (ḥalāl and ḥarām) were revealed.'

'If the first thing revealed had been,“Do not drink wine!” they would have said, “Never will we leave off wine,” and if (the first thing) revealed had been, “Do not fornicate!” they would have said, “Never will we leave off fornication.”'

~ hadith of ʿĀʾisha; al-Bukhārī

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“The presentation of qurʾānic developments in this chapter presupposes the reliability of the basic data of traditional accounts about the emergence of the Qurʾān, assuming the transmitted qurʾānic text to be the genuine collection of the communications of the Prophet as pronounced during his activities at Mecca (about 610–22 CE), and again at Medina (1/622 until his death in 11/632). It is true that the earlier consensus of scholarly opinion on the origins of Islam has, since the publication of John Wansbrough’s Quranic Studies and Patricia Crone and Michael Cook’s Hagarism, been shattered, and that various attempts at a new reconstruction of those origins have been put forward. As a whole, however, the theories of the so-called sceptic or revisionist scholars who, arguing historically, make a radical break with the transmitted picture of Islamic origins, shifting them in both time and place from the seventh to the eighth or ninth century and from the Arabian peninsula to the Fertile Crescent, have by now been discarded…

New findings of qurʾānic text fragments, moreover, can be adduced to affirm rather than call into question the traditional picture of the Qurʾān as an early fixed text composed of the suras we have. Nor have scholars trying to deconstruct that image through linguistic arguments succeeded in seriously discrediting the genuineness of the Qurʾān as we know it.”

Prof. Angelika Neuwirth, in The Cambridge Companion to the Qurʾān (2007), page 100

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