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“Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.”

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Benjamin Stillingfleet was an English author renowned for his works on natural history and botany. Born in 1702, he dedicated much of his life to the Royal Gardens at Kew, significantly contributing to the advancement of botanical knowledge. Stillingfleet's writings were highly influential in the field, and he is remembered for his precise observations and descriptions of plants. more

“So many Muslims have this belief that everything between the two covers of the Koran is just God's unaltered word. They like to quote the textual work that shows the Bible has a history and did not fall straight out of the sky, but until now the Koran has been out of this discussion. The only way to break through this wall is to prove that the Koran has a history too. The Sana'a fragments will help us do that.”

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Author:Gerd R. Puin

“My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad. Many of them may even be a hundred years older than Islam itself. Even within Islamic traditions there is a huge body of contradictory information, including a significant Christian substrate; one can derive a whole Islamic anti-history from them if one wants.”

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Author:Gerd R. Puin

“...until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical figures.”

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Author:Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov

“...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real verification. There is no reliable information about his life or teachings. Most stories about him are as apocryphal as the story that his coffin hangs forever in mid-air "between heaven and earth," like the bodies of ancient sacred kings.”

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Author:Barbara G. Walker

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