Introduction Among the arguments advanced by certain Christian missionaries against the divine origin of the Qur’an is the allegation that the mysterious letters appearing at the beginnings of several Qur’anic chapters were borrowed from earlier Samaritan religious or magical practices. This allegation is sometimes attributed to the Orientalist Moses Gaster (1856-1939), whose research into Samaritan…
The Gospel of Thomas The claim that the Qur’an plagiarized from the Gospel of Thomas, popularized in modern form by W. Atallah, rests on a methodological error: confusing shared religious vocabulary with literary dependence.[1] The Gospel of Thomas is not a Gospel in the historical sense The Gospel of Thomas is a 2nd-century Gnostic text,…
If someone asks ‘why should I believe in the Qur’an‘ or ‘why should I take the Qur’an to be the word of God‘ then the answer to that is simple. The Qur’an is the only book which claims to be from God. No other scripture even makes this claim. The claim of the Qur’an is…
