Part 1 Pace Cook and Crone, the implications of their theses are indeed “devastating“. Any research that casts doubt on the traditional Muslim account of the Koran, the Rise of Islam and the life of Muhammad is totally unacceptable to Muslims. The two final letters reveal the enormous gulf between the attitudes to research in […]
Historical Methodology and Dogmatic Islamophilia (Part 1)
(English Original of „Historische Methodologie und die Forderung nach Wohlwollen gegenüber dem Islam“) Historical Methodology and the Believer A few years ago I was invited to a conference at The Hague by Professor Hans Jansen, the great Arabist. After listening to series of grim papers all day long, Hans and I headed for the nearest […]