The Argument: With Reference to The Quran

by Ahmad Rafique Akhtar

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2016

Reviews

[Bart Van Loon · Rating 1 out of 5]

After long and interesting discussions covering life, the universe and everything, a friend of mine presented me with this English translation of Muqaddamat-ul-Quran. I am grateful for the present and will certainly keep it in my library to go through then and again.

Based on my friendly debates with said friend and the following quote from the preface I thought I would be in for an intellectual approach to Islam and its holy book.

[He] studied and examined the Quran for eight years on strict objective standards and in his own words "I showed no mercy," and the compliment was returned.

However... what I got after reading the first twelve chapters was very disappointing, to say the least: circular reasonings, fallacy's all over the place, off-hand rejection of every and any scholar that ever came before and even extremely dangerous calls for 'necessary apocalyptic events in the West to save them'. Seriously?

Finally, the lack of a bibliography or any other meaningful references made this "study" look like some standalone work that went without peer review and should, therefore, receive "no mercy" - to use the author's own words.