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Abdullah Quilliam

The prominent Anglo-Muslims Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall (who each translated the Qur'an), and Lord Headley were later buried near him.

Abu 'Ubaida

Al-Jahiz held him to be the most learned scholar in all branches of human knowledge, and Ibn Hisham accepted his interpretation even of passages in the Qur'an.

Abu Bakr Ibn Mujāhid

He was most notable for establishing the seven canonical Qur'anic readings (Qira'at).

Ahmed Hulusi

He stresses understanding the spirit of the Qur'an and the Sunnah rather than taking them out of context.

Al-Aqidah Al-Waasitiyyah

Chapter two contains the view of Ahl as-Sunnah wal-Jamm'ah regarding the attributes of Allah based on the Qur'an and Sunnah without ta'leel (rejection), tamthil (anthropomorphism), tahreef (changing Allah's attributes), and takyif (delving into the nature of Allah's attributes).

Al-Asr

Kenneth Cragg: It can be emphasized that the Qur'anic injunctions that were urgent in the original pagan setting of the first Muslims, led them to reach a true monotheism.

Al-Damun

Local tradition identified the village as containing the tomb of the prophet Dhul-Kifl, who is mentioned in the Qur'an twice.

Ashraf Choudhary

He was sworn in on the Qur'an, something which Winston Peters (leader of the New Zealand First party) criticised as a breach of proper procedure.

Corpus Coranicum

In 2007 journalist-publisher Frank Schirrmacher wrote an article for the Frankfurt Book Fair suggesting that the Academy's preparation of a historically critical Qur'an edition had been motivated by Pope Benedict XVI's ill-received Regensburg lecture of 2006 and predicting that the Corpus Coranicum would spark similar outrage among Muslims, comparing it to the punishment of Prometheus for bringing fire to mankind.

Darvishan

In January 2010, Darvishan was the theatre of Taliban fanned violent anti-American demonstrations, following rumors of a desecration of the Qur'an in a U.S.-led military operation and maltreatment of women in the village of Barcha, about 6 miles south of Darvishan, during a raid to detain insurgents.

Debt relief

In addition, the Qur'an (the Muslim scripture) supports debt forgiveness unable to pay as an act of charity and remission of sins for the creditor.

Enjoining good and forbidding wrong

Enjoining good and forbidding wrong, (Arabic: al-amr bi 'l-maʿruf wa 'n-nahy ʿan al-munkar), is an Islamic doctrine mentioned in the Qur'an.

Fred Donner

He responds in particular to the theory of late canonization of the Qur'an proposed by John Wansbrough and Yehuda D. Nevo.

Gay Muslims

The diverse ways of understanding of the Qur'an are echoed in the documentary by Dr Scott-Siraj Al-Haqq Kugle of Swarthmore College in the United States, currently a research fellow at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

George Grigore

He has published studies on the Qur’an and Islam, as well as on the Arabic dialects, with a special focus on the dialects of Baghdad and Mardin.

Günter Lüling

A student of Albert Schweitzer and Martin Werner, he attempted to demonstrate the textual link between pre-Islamic Christian hymnody in the Middle East to the composition of the Qur'an.

German Islam expert Tilman Nagel acknowledged in a 2008 interview these views as a mainstream theory by observing that "(Western Islam research) has moved towards the other extreme: since the late 1970s you hear that 'the historic figure Mohammed is a fiction, the Qur'an was written and changed during centuries by anonymous writers'. Some Islam experts even believe that the first Muslim community was a Christian Syriac sect".

Hadiths regarding the legality of Nikah Mut'ah

Muslims believe that the Qur'an is complemented by the way and examples set by Muhammad, this is called "(his) way" (Arabic: Sunnah).

Hasan al-Askari

He was very knowledgeable and despite being confined to house arrest for almost his entire life, Hasan al-Askari was able to teach others about Islam, and even compiled a commentary on the Qur'an that would be used by later scholars.

Illallah

The album features a recitation of a verse from the Qur’an (Ar-Rahman) and duas (supplications) from the Qur’an and Sunnah (teachings and practices of Islamic prophet Muhammad) as well as non-instrumental Islamic nasheeds about Allah and Muhammad based on the Qur'an and Hadith.

Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi

He wrote an exegesis of the Qur'an which was nominated for the 1925 Nobel Prize.

Islamic calendar

This interpretation is supported by Arab historians and lexicographers, like Ibn Hisham, Ibn Manzur, and the corpus of Qur'anic exegesis.

Islamic ethics

Many muslim theologians see the Golden Rule implicit in some verses of the Qur'an and in the Hadith.

Islamic view of the Christian Bible

In Islam, the Bible is held to reflect true unfolding revelation from God; but revelation which had been corrupted or distorted (in Arabic: tahrif); which necessitated the giving of the Qur'an to the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, to correct this deviation.

Josef Horovitz

In his Qur'anic Studies (1926), he used his method of detailed analysis of the language of Muhammad and his followers, and historical insights from his own study of early texts (Hebrew Union College Annual 2, Cincinnati 1925), and in the Qur'anic paradise (Jerusalem 1923) he examined the relationship between Islam and Judaism.

Khuzaima ibn Thabit

'Uthman said to the three Quraishi men, "In case you disagree with Zaid bin Thabit on any point in the Qur'an, then write it in the dialect of Quraish, the Qur'an was revealed in their tongue."

Koka and Vikoka

The names and deeds of these demon brothers are comparable to Gog and Magog in the Bible and ya'jooj wa ma'jooj (يأجوج و مأجوج) of Muslim tradition as they are mentioned in the Qur'an.

Louis Litif

His family surname Litif is a derivation of the Qur'anic Sufis verses; virtually all the Sufis distinguish the Lataif-as-Sitta, otherwise referred to as the six subtleties; which are made of Nafs, Qalb, Sirr, Ruh, Khafi, and Akhfa.

Madyan

Midian, a geographical place and a people mentioned in the Bible and in the Qur'an

Marriage in Islam

According to the Qur'an, a man may have up to four legal wives at any one time the restriction on the number was not customary before the advent of Islam in Arabia.

Maulana Azad Library

It is a fragment of the Qur'an transcribed by Hazrat Ali, the fourth caliph of Islam and is written on parchment in Kufi script.

Mount Judi

The proposal that the two names are ultimately the same was first advanced by the English Orientalist George Sale in his translation of the Qur'an published in 1734.

Mustafa Özcan Güneşdoğdu

His Qur'an recitation was featured on the accompanying CD for the book Approaching the Qur'an, written by Michael Sells.

Natasha D'Schommer

D'Schommer photographs rare books and musical manuscripts, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s sketchbooks (1815), the Gutenberg Bible (1455), J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 33, and original copies of all of the first four printed Bibles as well as copy of the Qur'an from about 1700.

National Library of Russia

Korff and his successor, Ivan Delyanov, added to the library's collections some of the earliest manuscripts of the New Testament (the Codex Sinaiticus from the 340s), the Old Testament (the so-called Leningrad Codex), and one of the earliest Qur'ans (the Uthman Qur'an from the mid-7th century).

Pickthall

Marmaduke Pickthall (1875–1936), Western Islamic scholar who was noted as an English translator of the Qur'an

Puin

Gerd R. Puin German scholar and world's foremost authority on Qur'anic paleography

Qur'an Gate

It is located at the northeastern entrance of the city, on the way to Marvdasht and Isfahan, between Baba Kouhi and Chehel Maqam Mountains near Allah-O-Akbar Gorge.

Risale-i Nur

Moreover, The Letters provide helpful answers to many questions of Belief and Islam; they contain unique explanations of the truths of Iman and the mysteries of the Our'an which also illustrate the Qur'anic way of Knowledge of Allah manifested by the Risale-i Nur.

Sufi Barkat Ali

Like other Muslims, he learned the reading of the Qur'an in his village Brahmi and then went to the nearest available schools in the towns of Halwara, famous for its Indian Air Force base, to receive his education.

Ta-Ha

Sura 20 displays several thematic and stylistic patterns described by Angelika Neuwirth in Jane McAuliffe’s book "The Cambridge Companion to the Qur’an.

Tafseer-e-Siddiqui

The Tafsir is a part of the curriculum of many Indian and Pakistani colleges and is widely appreciated since as a professor of Arabic and Theology, he attempted to interpret the Qur'anic Arabic in Urdu as well to as address some critical current issues.

Temple Denial

Imam Abdul Hadi Palazzi, leader of Italian Muslim Assembly and a co-founder and a co-chairman of the Islam-Israel Fellowship, quotes the Qur'an to support Judaism's special connection to the Temple Mount.

Temple in Jerusalem

Imam Abdul Hadi Palazzi, leader of Italian Muslim Assembly, quotes the Qur'an to support Judaism's special connection to the Temple Mount.

The Origins of The Koran: Classic Essays on Islam's Holy Book

After an introduction in Part One, Part Two focuses on the difficulty, perceived by the authors, of establishing a reliable Qur'anic text, while Part Three claims to detail the Jewish, Christian, and Zoroastrian sources of the Qur'an.

Wabar craters

In 1932, St. John Philby was hunting for a city named Ubar, that the Qur'an describes being destroyed by God for defying the Prophet Hud.

Yaşar Nuri Öztürk

His magnum opus, “The Islam of the Qur’an,” is considered one of the pioneering works of the “Back to the Qur’an” movement.


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2006 Lebanon War photographs controversies

A photo of a burning Qur'an amid a pile of rubble, also taken by Hajj, seemed suspicious to Los Angeles Times media critic Tim Rutten, since the building it was in had been destroyed in an Israeli airstrike hours beforehand, and everything else in the photo was already ash.

Futuh

:Until the findings of Egyptology became known to them, all that most Egyptians knew about Pharaoh was what they learned from the Qur'an, and the image of Pharaoh in the Qur'an is much the same as in the Old Testament.

Khalil Beidas

Beidas’ education was on a basis of classical Arab culture, and despite being a Christian Beidas was renowned as a hafiz.

Malakat

Ma malakat aymanukum, an Arabic phrase that appears in the Qur'an

Mohammed Rashad Abdulle

He learned Qur'an from his father and traveled extensively within the province of Hararghe to acquire further knowledge.

Muhammad Ayyub

He is currently a faculty member of the Department of Tafsir in the Faculty of the Holy Qur'an and Islamic Studies at the Islamic University of Madinah, a member of the Scholarly Committee of the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran, and the imam of Masjid Hasan ash-Sha`ir in Medina.

Mut'ah of Hajj

This is not mentioned in the Qur'an, rather it is a part of the Sunnah.

The Ultimate Revelations

To support this hypothesis, the author presents several arguments from the historical records describing the advent of Qur'anic revelations (Wahy), its language of communication, its time of arrival, the characteristics of its recipient nation, the information in its contents, and the presence of an interpreting mechanism built into the Qur'an.