Monthly Archives: November 2005
The Three Different Jesuses
Asif Iqbal (I) JESUS IN JUDAISM * LIFE: – Establishing the time of the “Jewish Jesus”: The reference to Jesus in the Talmud is by the title: “Yeshu Ha-Notzri,” but according to Jewish chronology, he lived at the time when ……Read More
Who destroyed the Alexandria Library?
VA Mohamad Ashrof Ptolemy II, who became the ruler of Egypt after Alexander the Great in the third century BC, was a great patron of learning, and founded a library in Alexandria, Egypt, which contained about 5,00,000 books on different ……Read More
Does "Musi'un" Means "Expanding"?
Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi Introduction It has come to our attention that Avijit Roy, webmaster of the Mukto Mona website, wrote an article titled Does the Qur’an Have any Scientific Miracles? One portion of the article on the subject of ……Read More
Christoph Heger's Problematic "Reconstruction" of the Qur'anic Sura 96
Asif Iqbal In an article of his, Christoph Heger has ventured to uncover what he insinuated as the pre-Islamic ground layer of an originally Christian text in the Qur’anic Sura 96. Let us first present a beautiful English rendering of ……Read More
Islam Through Western Eyes
Edward W. Said (We do not neccessarily agree with everything that is said by the author ? Ed. ) The media have become obsessed with something called “Islam,” which in their voguish lexicon has acquired only two meanings, both of ……Read More
Sources of the Qur'an: Question for the Critics
It is known that the enemies of Islam, most especially the Christian missionaries, are unable to accept the reality of the Qur’an and its divine existence. Hence, they try to make excuses and their frequent clarion of despair is that the Qur’an was “plagiarised” from Judeo-Christian sources. This claim was repeated by Orientalists in the likes of Sale, Bell and Rodinson. Needless to mention, these rabble did not provide any proof for these accusations. Their claims, however, are happily picked up by the Christian missionaries who are still living in the past….Read More


























