The True Furqan
OCLC 52725049 | |
The True Furqan (
Reception
According to Baptist News, Al-Mahdy, a member of the executive committee of "Project Omega 2001" released The True Furqan in April 1999 saying that
Christian missionary Dr. Ray Register characterized the book as an effective tool for "pre-evangelism" to help "critique the Quran and popular Muslim attitudes toward Jesus and ethical living."[8]
It has been described as "Christian propaganda" since its second verse "starts talking about the
Islamic scholars at the
Michael R. Licona draws a parallel between The True Furqan and the Gospel of Barnabas, in that each attempts to emulate the style of the scriptures of one religion in order to advance the doctrinal claims of the other, albeit with the respective roles of Christianity and Islam reversed.[13]: 99
Some
Censorship
The importation of the book into India is prohibited.[15][16]
References
- ^ C.S. Arthur, "New book answers challenge issued by Islam's holy book", Baptist News, 28 May 1999
- ^ Anis Shorrosh's home page
- ^ Yohanna Katanacho, "Palestinian Protestant Theological Responses to a World Marked by Violence", p. 5 (also in Missiology 36, no. 3 (2008))
- ^ Table of Contents
- ^ Surah 17:88 (none can create a work like the Quran), Surah 11:13 (none can produce ten Surahs like the Quran), Surah 2:23 (none can create a single Surah like the Quran)
- ^ Yohanna Katanacho, "Palestinian Protestant Theological Responses to a World Marked by Violence", p. 6 (also in Missiology 36, no. 3 (2008)).
- ISBN 9780310515029.
- ^ Ray Register, "Discipling Middle Eastern Believers", St Francis Magazine Nr. 2 Vol. V (April 2009) Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine, p. 41
- ^ Whitaker, Brian "The Nashville Qur'an" Guardian 8 February 2007
- ^ Sheila Musaji, "The ‘True Furqan’ Qur'an Hoax", The American Muslim
- ^ The Middle East, abstracts and index, Library Information and Research Services, vol. 4, 2005, p.456
- ^ NajarZadegan, Fath Allah; Haftador, Hassan Rezaee; Shahmoradi, Muhammad Mahdi (January 2017). "The Methodology of Assessing the "The True Furqan's" Challenge of the Qur'an" (PDF). Man in India. 97 (14): 367–378.
- ^ Licona, Michael (2009). "Using the Death of Jesus to Refute Islam" (PDF). Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics. 2 (1): 87–110.
- ^ a b c State Department Press Release, "A New American Koran?", 21 April 2005 Archived 14 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Notification No. 78 /2005-Customs (N.T.) (Archived from the original on 24 April 2015.)
- ^ Suroor, Hasan (2012-03-03). "You can't read this book". The Hindu. Retrieved 2017-02-08.