Responses to Claims Made ABOUT Qur’an Verses, Arabic Terms, Prophet Muhammad

These claims most often involve misrepresentation or misinterpretation of Qur’an verses and Arabic terms, or misuse or misunderstanding of Hadith

Last updated 4/22/2008

RESPONSES TO MISREPRESENTATION OR MISINTERPRETATION OF SPECIFIC VERSES OF THE QUR’AN

- 2:65 (pigs and monkeys?)
- 2:190-194 and [2], and [3] and [4]
- 2:216 (jihad or quital)
- 2:224
- 2:282 and [2] (male and female witnesses)
- 4:7 (inheritance laws) and [2] (Abdul Aziz Sachedina)
- 4:24-25, 23:5-6, 23:6, 24:33 (whom your right hands possess)
- 4:25 (slavery)
- 4:34 (beating wives), and [2], and [3], and [4], and [5] and [6], and [7], and [8] and [9] (AbdulHamid A. Abu Sulayman)
- 4:76
- 4:91
- 48:29
- 4:89 (apostasy)
- 4:95 - 4:157
- 5:33
- 5:51, and [2] (non Muslims as friends)
- 5:54
- 5:60-64 (anti-Semitism in Qur’an) - 7:163-166 (pigs and monkeys?) and 2 (Aziz Poonwalla)
- 8:12, and [2] (beheading)
- 8:55 (world domination)
- 9:5, and [2], and [3] (verse of the sword) [4] (Ali Eteraz)
- 9:29 (jizya)
- 18:86 (does the sun set in a ‘muddy pool’?)
- 33:23 (jihad & martyrs)
- 47:4 (war of aggression or self-defense)
- 48:29 (treatment of unbelievers)

... Misrepresentation of various verses if the Qur’an - “The Use and Abuse of Scriptures” (Sheila Musaji), and [2] “Throwing Stones at the Qur’an From a Glass House” (Sheila Musaji)

RESPONSES TO MISREPRESENTATION, MISINTERPRETATION, AND CLAIMS ABOUT THE QUR’AN

... abrogation (Naskh) in the Qur’an (Khaleel Mohammed) and 2 (Jeffrey Lang)
... Atlantic Monthly article article in the Atlantic Monthly “What is the Koran?” (Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
... compilation of the Qur’an, and [2]
... contradictions claim that there are internal contradictions in the Qur’an
... grammar that there are grammar mistakes in the Qur’an
... Interpretation Extremist interpretations of the Qur’an “On Reading the Qur’an - and Misreading It” (Khaled Abou El Fadl)
... Interpretation Towards Multiple Understandings of the Qur’an (Asghar Ali Engineer)
... NY Times article by Alexander Stille on origins of the Qur’an
... Newsweek Article, and [2] “Challenging the Qur’an”
... Newsweek Article “In the Beginning There Were the Holy Books” on the Qur’an by Kenneth Woodward (G.F. Haddad)
... sources claim about the sources of the Qur’an by Dr. Robert Morey (Shabbir ali)
... sources Qur’an not Divine Revelation claim by Dr. Robert Morey
... sources - borrowed that Islam simply ‘copied’ from Christianity and Judaism
... sources - borrowed that the Qur’an ‘borrowed’ from the Bible
... translation Hilali-Khan translation (Sheila Musaji)
... translation On the New Revised Edition of Yusuf Ali’s Qur’an Translation (Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad)
... translation Playing into the Hands of the Extremists? - Hilali-Khan Qur’an Translation (Robert D. Crane)

RESPONSES TO MISREPRESENTATION OR MISINTERPRETATION OF ARABIC CONCEPTS AND TERMS

... Allah and God are not the same claim (Shahul Hameed) and 2 (Dr. Umar Farouq Abd Allah) and [3] Bishop Paul Ing “Allah was used by Arab Christians before Islam was founded”, [4] (Khaled Hamed)
... Allah that the Islamic concept of God doesn’t include God’s love, see also 99 names of God, and definition of al wadood
... Allah claim by Dr. Morey that Allah is a moon god and 2 and 3 and 4
... caliphate Bringing Back the Caliphate (Inayat Bunglawala) and Return of the Caliphate (Osama Saeed), Who Needs a Caliphate? (Asim Siddiqui) Caliphate the New Jihad (Omer Mozaffer)
... Dar al-Islam, Dar al-Harb, dar al-Hudna, dar al-Ahd, and dar al-Sulh
... dhimmi
... jihad, and 2 ‘Jihad’ (Antony T. Sullivan), 3 Jihad and the Crusades, 4 Jihad and Just War, and [5] [6] Jihad confused with HIRABAH
... jizya
... Madrassah which is just a school
... Najasa or impurity misrepresented (Habib Siddiqui)
... naksh/abrogation, and [2]
... Shahada/ martyrdom
... Sharia Sharia and Halakha Arbitration Courts (Sheila Musaji)
... shura and democracy, etc.
... taqiyya (lying) The Taqiyya libel against Muslims (Sheila Musaji) - Qur’an and Hadith against lying (Yusuf Estes)
... Wilaya
... wilaya claim thatMuslims cannot have non-Muslims as friends.

RESPONSES TO ALLEGATIONS MADE AGAINST THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD

... Ayesha’s age at marriage (Abdur Rahman Squires), and 2 and 3
... murders that he ordered the killing of of Abu ‘Afak and Asma’ bint Marwan (Hesham Azmy)
... Banu Qurayza Misrepresentation of the incident with the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza, and 2 Prophet Muhammad’s Treaty with the Jews, and 3 Muhammad and the Jews of Medina (PBS) and 4 NEW LIGHT ON THE STORY OF BANU QURAYZA AND THE JEWS OF MEDINA, By W. N. ARAFAT
... Truth about Muhammad book by Robert Spencer with many allegations - “Fascist-Islamophobia”: A Case Study in Totalitarian Demonization - 5 parts (Robert D. Crane)

RESPONSES TO CLAIMS MADE ABOUT HADITH

Women as fitna [1]

SEE ALSO:
ISLAMOPHOBIA - RESPONSES (The responses section was divided into into five sections on 12/16/07)
- Responses to Claims Made ABOUT Islam and Muslims in General
- Responses to Claims Made ABOUT Qur’an Verses, Arabic Terms, Prophet Muhammad
- Responses to False Claims ABOUT Muslim Individuals & Organizations & Incidents Involving Muslims
- Responses to Actual Extremist Statements & Incidents of Extremism or violence BY Muslims
- Responses to Claims Made BY Specific Individuals and Organizations About Muslims

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