REL119 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Historical Criticism, Trinity Broadcasting Network, Historicity Of Homer
1 May 2020
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Ad th, which appeared in the third / ninth century sunni region. Such great compendia, widely known as "the six right books" (al-s. There were other significant compilations, but these six works never gained authority. Al-bukh r is said to have traveled extensively from town to town and consulted over a thousand authorities. Muslim scholarship had already set out clear requirements for determining each h"s authenticity. Ad th arrived on the scene more than a millennium before western orientalists questioned the validity of the entire corpus. Needless to say, they dismiss h"s entire corpus. Traditional muslim scholars do not take the so-called historical criticism of these. In turn, ad th invalidates the very islamic tradition. Particularly because many of the claims of the western orientalists have been negated by the discovery of recent historical evidence, whereas their entire stance is implicitly focused on the disavowal of the truth of islamic revelation.
