Islam as Seen by the Europeans — Muhammad Ghallab

الإسلام كما يراه الأوروبيون — محمد غلاب

Muhammad Ghallab, professor of philosophy at al-Azhar, in the Scientific Series of the Islamic Research Academy. He reviews what European writers said about Islam, the Prophet ﷺ and the Qur'an, separates older polemic from later scholarship, and discusses Casanova's thesis on alteration of the Qur'an and Renan's view of Islam and science. 126 pages, with a tribute by Muhammad Rajab al-Bayumi and supervised by the Academy's Secretary-General.

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A book by Dr Muhammad Ghallab, professor of philosophy at al-Azhar University, in the Islamic Research Academy's scholarly series. It presents European orientalists' views of Islam, the Prophet and the Qur'an, discussing some of them and distinguishing the older writings it calls prejudiced from the modern ones it calls serious; it includes discussions of Casanova's thesis on the Qur'an's alteration and Renan's view on Islam and science. 126 pages, with a foreword by Muhammad Rajab al-Bayyumi under the Academy secretary-general's supervision.

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