This is one of the earliest Qur’ans in the world
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Why Books Matter…excerpt from a talk by Sheikh Hamza Yusuf…
This is an awesome quotation and mirrors my experience of reading some of the great pre-modern works of literature. I have been changed forever. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Melchizedek is called Yahweh in the Dead Sea Scrolls
My apologies for the poor quality of the images taken on my iPhone earlier. These are taken from the invaluable scholarly resource A Man Attested by God: The Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels by Dr J.R. Daniel Kirk. Many Jewish figures… Read More ›
Belief in an afterlife is basically absent from the Old Testament. The Qur’an suggests a reason why.
Marcus J. Borg, an American New Testament scholar and theologian, in his last book ponders the strange absence of the afterlife in the Jewish Bible: ‘In the Old Testament, which is more than two-thirds of the Christian Bible, belief in… Read More ›
The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy
Just £32.99 on Amazon prime. Delivered to me today. This is a very high class work of scholarship on a fascinating subject. It is fascinating to see how Islamic thinkers tackled many of the same philosophical questions as their Christian… Read More ›
