"The Moores in times past of Fez and Morocco, had divers excellent personages, well learned, and very civill; for amon…"

"Qur'anic studies, as a field of academic research, appears today to be in a state of disarray. Those of us who study …"

"Based on archaeology, script geography and areal linguistics in the Late Antique Roman-Byzantine Middle East (includi…"

"In fact, “almost all the religious terms in the Qur’an,” Mingana notes, “are derived from Syriac.” These include word…"

"“There is no hard evidence for the existence of the Koran in any form before the last decade of the seventh century, …"

"It was Umar, Abu Turab and Salman the Persian who composed that (“your P’ourkan” [or Furqan]), even though the rumour…"

"Hajjaj “gathered together every single copy” of the Qur’an he could find “and caused to be omitted from the text a gr…"

"Uthman said to the three Quraishi men, "In case you disagree with Zaid bin Thabit on any point in the Qur'an, then wr…"

"To overdraw its evils is a simple impossibility ..."

"19 June 1866 – We passed a woman tied by the neck to a tree and dead, the people of the country explained that she ha…"