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Woodrow:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Ishaq
Ibn Ishaq's work is of great historical interest as the earliest surviving biography of Muhammad


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_Verses
A number of Muslim scholars, notably Fazlur Rahman, have argued that if we are to trust Ibn Ishaq on other matters, we must trust him on this one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazlur_Rahman
Fazlur Rahman Malik (September 21, 1919 - July 26, 1988) was a well-known scholar of Islam; M. Yahya Birt of the Association of Islam Researchers described him as "probably the most learned of the major Muslim thinkers in the second-half of the twentieth century, in terms of both classical Islam and Western philosophical and theological discourse."

J @ M @ L:

--- Quote from: Woodrow on February 09, 2006, 11:48:45 PM ---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Ishaq
Ibn Ishaq's work is of great historical interest as the earliest surviving biography of Muhammad

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LMAO.... "great historical interest"... here are the couple sentences that appear right before the one you chose to quote...

Ibn Ishaq himself would have been the first to insist that he was collecting oral traditions, not necessarily vouching for their truth. In some instances he gives two versions of an event, then concludes that only Allah knows which is true.

Ibn Ishaq's work is of great historical interest as the earliest surviving biography of Muhammad.

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He collected stories... not verified "hadith".

Bernard Lewis:

From an early date Muslim scholars recognized the danger of false testimony and hence false doctrine, and developed an elaborate science for criticizing tradition. "Traditional science", as it was called, differed in many respects from modern historical source criticism, and modern scholarship has always disagreed with evaluations of traditional scientists about the authenticity and accuracy of ancient narratives. But their careful scrutiny of the chains of transmission and their meticulous collection and preservation of variants in the transmitted narratives give to medieval Arabic historiography a professionalism and sophistication without precedent in antiquity and without parallel in the contemporary medieval West. By comparison, the historiography of Latin Christendom seems poor and meagre, and even the more advanced and complex historiography of Greek Christendom still falls short of the historical literature of Islam in volume, variety and analytical depth.

sharjiel:
on the real...

Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) prolly bless them (the cartoon artists) saying that they dunt know wat they are doing and ask for forgiveness on there behalf as he did when PPL of TAIF threw stones at him causing him to flee TAIF!

coola:
same teachings as the bible pretty much..

King Tech Quadafi:

--- Quote from: Woodrow on February 09, 2006, 11:30:37 PM ---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_%27Afak

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Ey Long Time No Clown

where u been bert? u missed a whole lot of fun over the last week. ur friends c walker and co couldve used ur articles

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