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→‎Ezra as the son of God in Jewish doctrine: Important development on the identity of 'Uzayr. Apologists are already on to it so deserves a significant subsection.

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→‎Supernatural destruction of cities (the punishment stories): Added another punishment narrative, and reference for the Queen of Sheba fitting in with the punishment stories despite it's briefness.

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→‎Supernatural destruction of cities (the punishment stories): Added another brief punishment narrative

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Language improvements + Ezra theories + removed some unnecessary quotes + ran script to fix non-use of Quran-range template (important so we/language sub-domains aren't reliant on Quranx's url structure)

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Automated script replacing USC-MSA hadith numbering system for Bukhari, Muslim, and Abu Dawud

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→‎Regarding the Traditional Historical Account of the Quran's Origins: Moving last section to separate article as discussed

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→‎Crucifixions in ancient Egypt: Strengthened against various apologetic counter-arguments

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→‎Supernatural destruction of cities (the punishment stories): Added another listed destroyed group to the Punishment stories section.

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→‎Supernatural destruction of cities (the punishment stories): Have added another destroyed people/location (al-Rass) in the Qur'an to the section, and put the paragraph into bullet point list for readability.

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→‎The afterlife in the Torah: Have added another religious doctrine teaching that doesn't align with our historical knowledge of the earlier Abrahamic religions. Have cited academic Gordon D Nickel who although is a Christian is a genuine academic (with a respected PhD under Andrew Rippin) and historian who covers the point succinctly here. See his academic background: https://saiacs.academia.edu/GordonNickel

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→‎Supernatural destruction of cities (the punishment stories): Added other punishment story verses and Moses's people punishment story.

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→‎Supernatural destruction of cities: Have added section highlighting all towns are meant to have experienced this, not just those mentioned or around Arabia, expanding the lack of evidence for this. And linked to David Marshal and Durie who cover them in much more depth - also highlighting their point that this was initially stated as a threat to the Meccans that did not occur. Pharoahs drowning verse in the list of narratives.

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Rejected the last text change (by CPO675) and restored revision 139106 by CPO675: this idea is disputed, so not appropriate for this article

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→‎Humans lived for hundreds of years: Have added 'Judgement day would be close to Muhammad's time' as a historical error (and false prediction), citing academic sources and linking to the same error in the hadith.

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→‎Arabian idols from the time of Noah: Added Nasr being found in Arabian inscriptions too.

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Added image. Removed/merged oven section. Olivier Mongellaz recently explained the oven story. Syriac source (attributed in Syriac Targum to Hippolytus, though undateable) has Ham's wife warned by water gushing up through bread oven. Makes sense. Tafsirs similar. The word translated boiled can just mean welled up in the context of water according to Lane. Gabriel Said-Reynolds is persuaded and likely correct. Grammar fixes inc. many "it's" to "its" as no apostrophe for possessive its in English.

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→‎Supernatural destruction of cities: Added the people of Tubba' to the destruction legends list.

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→‎Other Mesopotamian elements in the Egyptian story, including baked clay to make lofty towers to the heavens: minor grammar changes

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→‎Noah's worldwide flood: Provided more evidence of the flood being global with Muslim historians dividing the world history into pre and post world flood periods - academic book by van Bladel cited.

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→‎Crucifixions in ancient Egypt: Added a source for when crucifixion for when began, and linked a video covering this topic with great counter arguments to apologetics on this issue.

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→‎The Total Destruction of Pharaohs/Egypts Monuments: Added a short portion on the nature of the word that is used in regards to destruction in the verse discussed.

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→‎Noah's worldwide flood: Made minor changes to improve clarity, provide references and a better explained translation in to improve these.

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→‎Nabatean rock tombs at al-Hijr as homes and palaces from before the time of Pharaoh: Have expanded the historical errors of the Thamud story, and added more references for e.g. the chronology of them vs Moses prove/cite incorrect claim.

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→‎Noah's worldwide flood: Provided an example of modern Islamic scholars supporting the worldwide flood in very confident terms.

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→‎The Total Destruction of Pharaohs/Egypts Monuments

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→‎Supernatural destruction of cities: Added a new sub category dealing with another specific example of Quranic claims of divine destruction of socities – now specifically in reference to Quran 7:137, and its anachronistic claims in regards to Ancient Egypt.

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→‎The Historical Jesus

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→‎Arabian idols from the time of Noah: Added 'Wadd' being confirmed an Arabian God close to the time of Muhammad rather than Noah. And expanded Q71:26 for more context.

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→‎Noah's worldwide flood: Added some more Noah verses implying a worldwide flood - with later prophets being Noah's descendants.

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→‎Noah's worldwide flood: Added another relevant Noah verse noting Moses is a descendent, which along with the above verses adds to the evidence the flood is global.

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→‎Unknown religion in the Qur'an: Added this section as I believe its relevant in that we can see that many stories of prophets in the Qur'an come from much later writings than the biblical versions - making the chance of them being historically accurate even lower.

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→‎Hāmān in ancient Egypt: Have added in more evidence and explanation between Haman and ancient Persian elements (incorrectly) moved into ancient Egypt - from Adam Silverstein's work, highlighting the historical issues.

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→‎Unknown words in the Quran: Added another reference to an article on the false ascribing of unknown words to earlier Islamic figures in exegetical reports by Joshua Little.

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→‎Pharoah as a name and not a title: Sharpened up previous post slightly to make the point and wording clearer :)

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→‎The singular Pharaoh: Added the mistake of the pharaoh being a name not a title

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→‎Mecca as a safe sanctuary: Added another historical error int he Moses talks of previous kings among his people in the Qur'an narrative, before Israel existed.

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→‎The Children of Israel in Egypt: Have added in the 'double whammy' historical error of the Israelites inheriting Egypt in the Qur'an along with Israel. Have provided academic references as well as for the reason this error occurred.

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→‎The Historical Jesus: Added a similar section on John the Baptist - highlighting that secular scholarship also considers him along with Jesus to have preached that the apocalypse was at hand - not matching the Qur'anic version.

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→‎The Historical Jesus: Added a similar section on John the Baptist - highlighting that secular scholarship also considers him along with Jesus to have preached that the apocalypse was at hand - not matching the Qur'anic version.

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→‎The Historical Jesus: Added a small section to strengthen the point on Jesus's Ethical teachings and their apocalyptic context, Academic references provided.

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→‎Surah of the elephant: I have added a section on the historical Jesus, with historical-critical research from biblical scholars not matching the Qur'anic version. So far I have covered 1 consensus aspect (imminent apocalypse), though I certainly plan to add more including apocalyptic teachings, John the Baptist, and other incompatible early beliefs. I've left longer footnotes than usual as it's a topic not many will be familiar with - so please let me know if you want them shortened. Thanks

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→‎Countable currency in ancient Egypt: Added two academic sources for ancient Egyptian anachronisms - from Sean W Anthony's Reddit AMA on r/AcademicQuran.

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→‎Surah of the elephant: Fixed minor typos.

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→‎Surah of the elephant: Added some minor changes to improve clarity.

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→‎Suliman's missing kingdom: Have added a section on the elephant of Surah of the Elephant (and all surrounding Islamic traditions) being a legend.