Misrepresentations of Islamic Scripture: Difference between revisions

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Evangelical Islamic discourse makes frequent use of verses and hadiths which when viewed in their full formulation and original context often present a message partially or wholly different than the purpose for which they were employed. While critics of Islam have been known to similarly misrepresent Islamic scripture, such misrepresentation where conducted by those advocating Islam generally goes unnoticed and uncriticized.

[[Abrogation|Abrogation]] (Naskh) refers to one Qur'anic verse superseding another, and is explicitly described by [[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Islamic Theology#Abrogation|Qur'anic verses]] and various hadith narrations. From Umayyad and Abassid times, some scholars considered the so-called 'sword verse' Q 9:5 to abrogate various more peaceful verses and interpreted it as an open ended persmission for expansive warfare. According to some later classical scholars, even {{Quran|8|61}} and its message of reconciliation was abrogated by the sword verse. Islamic modernist and academic scholars regard such a view as reflecting the imperial expediencies of a later period.<ref name="Khalil2017">See for example Mohammad Hassan Khalil, "Jihad, Radicalism and the New Atheism", Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 9-16</ref>