(August 7, 2021 at 4:35 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(August 7, 2021 at 4:32 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: One good example would be the Qur'an's own account of some figures in the bible. The Qur'an says that the Egyptian Pharaoh(or the pharaoh of the Exodus) claimed divinity, this detail is really not mundane. The Pharaoh of the Exodus is mentioned in the old testament in various ways, but never as someone who claimed he was God.
Christian missionaries thought for centuries this was an historical error, and thought it was an obvious flaw in the Qur'an, until the recent decipherment of hieroglyphs revealed that ancient pharaohs actually claimed divinity, confirming Muhammad's description of the Pharaoh and surpassing the Bible's accounts which were the predominant and even the sole source of information about such historical figures.
More about this here : https://www.islamic-awareness.org/quran/...ngods.html
The Qur'an naming of Abraham's father is also another example of this. All this should be thought of in the context of the 7th century's Mecca, of course.
So fucking what?
Well the obvious conclusion is that the Qur'an's content surpasses the sources that were available to Muhammad.
