10. On Monday 21st October 1492, Columbus recorded seeing a mosque on top of a beautiful mountain off the coast of Cuba. #ColumbusDay — Mohammed Ansar (@MoAnsar) October 12, 2015 This claim of Mo Ansar’s is easy to rebut.… Continue Reading
For Daud, who asked me the question. The work we know as ‘the Sahīfah of Hammām bin Munabbih’ is a collection of around 140 hadīths. It begins with a chain of transmission from the Prophet through Abū Hurayrah, Hammām, Ma‘mar,… Continue Reading
The name of Muhammad’s tribe, as reported in the Arabic sources, is Quraysh. It’s a word of no certain origin, and the medieval scholars offer a number of speculative and conflicting etymologies, none of which is very plausible. That’s normal… Continue Reading
The other day I was looking for epigraphical sources when I came across an article from Islamic Awareness, a website for Muslim apologetics. Now, I quite like Islamic Awareness: their analysis is often awry, but they tend to cite academic… Continue Reading