It’s unclear what passage of the Qur’an this charming lad has in mind. The Qur’an does say “Kill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5), but those exhortations aren’t specifically directed at Jews. Outside of the Qur’an, there is a famous hadith depicting Muhammad as saying that the end times will not come […]
Video: Al Fadi and Robert Spencer on The Critical Qur’an: What Does the Qur’an Really Say?
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The Critical Qur’an: ‘A Qur’an commentary that goes where others fear to tread’
Here is a superbly detailed review of The Critical Qur’an, which you can order here. “Review: The Critical Qur’an – Explained from Key Islamic Commentaries and Contemporary Historical Research,” by Loren Rosson, April 23, 2022: If you want a Qur’an commentary that goes where others fear to tread, then try Robert Spencer’s The Critical Qur’an. To describe […]
The Critical Qur’an: A Mighty Work of Elucidation and Scholarship That Has Few Equals
In Spencer’s glosses to Qur’anic passages in The Critical Qur’an, he fills every vein with ore. A single footnote may contain some or all of the following: passages from elsewhere in the Qur’an, for the purposes of comparison and contrast; hadith, taken mainly from the “reliable” compilations of Bukhari and Muslim; excerpts from the commentaries […]
Video: A Critical Look at Surah 96 from The Critical Qur’an, with David Wood and Robert Spencer
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A Layman Looks At The Critical Qur’an
I opened Robert Spencer’s The Critical Qur’an with some trepidation. Would I, a layman unschooled in Islamic studies, be able to penetrate the thicket of verses whose sense I often cannot make out unaided, in order to understand what the Qur’an has meant through time, and especially what it means to Believers today, a meaning that – […]
‘Robert Spencer’s Qur’an: A new annotated Qur’an that belongs in every sensible citizen’s library’
The Critical Qur’an is coming out May 3. It has zoomed to the top: #1 bestselling Qur’an in the U.S. Pre-order: HERE. “Robert Spencer’s Qur’an,” by Bruce Bawer, FrontPage Magazine, April 28, 2022: Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The fate of the Western world has been bound up with Islam ever since […]
The Critical Qur’an: ‘A Valuable Tool in the Civilizational War of Ideas’
A terrific review of The Critical Qur’an by Dr. Bill Warner. The Critical Qur’an will be out in eight days. Preorder the hardcover here or kindle here. “The Critical Qur’an: A Weapon In An Ideological War,” by Bill Warner, FrontPage Magazine, October 18, 2021: [Pre-Order Robert Spencer’s ‘The Critical Qur’an’: CLICK HERE.] Robert Spencer’s new book The Critical Qur’an is a one […]
David Wood video: The Critical Qur’an is ‘the Qur’an you need right now’
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The Critical Qur’an: ‘A Gift to Thinking People’
I’m grateful to Danusha Goska for this fine, thoughtful review of The Critical Qur’an, which will be out May 3. Preorder the hardcover here or kindle here. “Robert Spencer’s ‘The Critical Qur’an’: A must-read, essential book,” by Danusha V. Goska, FrontPage Magazine, February 22, 2022: [Robert Spencer’s new book, The Critical Qur’an, will be out May 3. Preorder now: HERE.] If I […]