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Category: Islamic Theology
Comparative theological examination of Islamic claims.
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Decoding Islamic Origins
Classical Islamic dogmatics asserts that the Qurʾān was dictated verbatim in a seventh-century Meccan dialect, standardized under Caliph ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, and preserved with letter-perfect uniformity from an uncreated tablet (al-Lawḥ al-Maḥfūẓ).
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Decoding the Syro-Aramaic and Sectarian Christian Roots of the Qurʾān: A Philological, Historical-Critical, and Biblical-Theological Assessment
The Standard Islamic Narrative asserts that the Qurʾān was revealed verbatim in the seventh-century Meccan dialect of the Quraysh, standardized under Caliph ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, and preserved with letterperfect vocalic and consonantal uniformity.
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The Unchanging Text in Flux
This essay offers a historical-critical and biblical-theological appraisal of the popular claim that the Qurʾān has been preserved with letter-for-letter, grapheme-for-grapheme identity from the recitation associated with Muḥammad (ca. 610 632 CE to the printed text in global…
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The Theological Engineering of Muḥammad’s Biography: Historiographical Distance, Codicological Reality, and the Promise-Plan of Divine Revelation
This essay offers a historical-critical and biblical-theological appraisal of early Islamic origins, with particular attention to the construction of Muḥammad’s biography (sīra) and the literature of the prophetic tradition (ḥadīth).
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Deconstructing the Historical Muhammad and the Meccan Myth
Classical Islamic dogmatics has long maintained the Standard Islamic Narrative: that the Qurʾān is an uncreated, letter-perfect revelation dictated in the Ḥijāzī sanctuary of Mecca between 610 and 632 CE and preserved on a heavenly tablet (al-lawḥ al-maḥfūẓ).
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The Crumbling Narrative of Perfect Quranic Preservation, Codicological Evidence, Historical Criticism, and the Promise-Plan of Divine Revelation
For more than thirteen centuries, Islamic orthodoxy has maintained that the Qurʾān in use today is an exact, letter-for-letter replica of the recitation delivered to Muḥammad between 610 and 632 CE, preserved on an uncreated celestial tablet (al-Lawḥ…
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Historical Scrutiny of Islamic Origins: Narrative Construction, Inlibration, and the Promise-Plan of God
This essay examines the Standard Islamic Narrative of Qurʾānic origins, the life of Muḥammad, and the sacred geography of Mecca under ordinary historical-critical pressure, and then situates the resulting questions within Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s promise-plan theology.
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The Inlibration Fallacy, Early Islamic Origins, and the Promise-Plan of God: A Biblical-Theological and Historical-Critical Appraisal
This essay evaluates classical Islamic apologetic claims about scriptural immutability, Christology, and early Islamic origins through historicalcritical inquiry and Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s promise-plan biblical theology.
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The Promise-Plan of God and the Fragility of Inlibration: A Biblical-Theological and Historical-Critical Appraisal of Early Islamic Origins
This essay evaluates core Islamic apologetic claims about scriptural integrity, Christology, and early Islamic origins through historical-critical inquiry and Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s promise-plan biblical theology. Orthodox Islamic polemics typically rest on inlibration: the Qurʾān as the eternal,…
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Dismantling Islamic Apologetics: A Biblical-Theological and Historical-Critical Guide for Christian Polemics
This essay presents a comprehensive academic framework for Christian polemics against Islamic apologetic assertions, organized under Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s promise-plan biblical theology.