The Islamic Dilemma: answers for Reddit readers
Short, sourced answers to the questions people search for about the Islamic Dilemma: Surah 5:46, 5:47, 10:94, and whether the Qur’an or the Bible…
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Explainers and essays on the history, scripture and thought of the Abrahamic traditions. Browse every topic.
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The Islamic Dilemma: the argument and the answer
If the Gospel is the word of God, Islam is false; if it is not, Islam is still false. The Islamic Dilemma at its…
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Are the Abrahamic religions violent? War and peace in scripture and history
Has religion caused most wars? What the historical record shows, what the scriptures of each tradition command about war and peace, and the verse…
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Food and faith: kosher, halal and the Christian table
Why Jews and Muslims do not eat pork, why most Christians do, and what Mandaeans may not eat: the food laws of the four…
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Religious law in the Abrahamic traditions: halakhah, canon law and the sharīʿah
Jewish halakhah, Christian canon law, the Islamic sharīʿah and the Mandaean rules of purity: what each is, where it comes from, and what the…
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The symbols of the four traditions
The Star of David, the Mandaean banner, the cross and the crescent: where each came from, how old each is, and why Islam, strictly,…
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Where was Abraham from? Ur, Harran and Urfa
Genesis names Ur of the Chaldeans. Archaeologists point to southern Iraq, others to the north, and Urfa claims him by tradition. The evidence, and…
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The parting of the ways: how Christianity separated from Judaism
Jesus and his disciples were Jews. How did their movement become a separate religion? From Acts and Paul to the two wars with Rome…
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What language did Abraham speak?
Akkadian, Aramaic, Hebrew or Arabic? The world of Abraham, the Jewish and Muslim traditions about his language, and the Qur’anic principle that joins them.
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Ḥirāʾ and Qubāʾ: where the revelation and the first mosque began
Where the revelation began and where the first mosque was built: the cave of Ḥirāʾ above Makkah and the mosque of Qubāʾ at Madinah,…
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The stations of the Hajj: Minā, ʿArafāt and Muzdalifah
From Makkah to Minā, ʿArafāt and Muzdalifah and back: the stations of the Hajj, day by day, and the call to Abraham that every…
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Hagia Sophia: cathedral, mosque, museum and mosque again
Cathedral for nine centuries, the first mosque of the Ottoman state, a museum, and a mosque again: the history of Hagia Sophia and the…