Preliminary note: Why have many of Jalal Abualrub's articles disappeared?

The latest rebuttals to Abualrub's claims in writing, audio or video are now located on this page.

Jalal Abualrub first contacted us on 29 November 2004 with a debate challenge. After a couple of months of correspondence, he finally wrote on 29 January 2005:

This page will document the progress of Mr. Abualrub's project and list further rebuttals to claims made by him:

• Answers to Abualrub's attack on the article "One Adam or Two?"
  • The Prostration to Adam — A Quranic Problem ([Part 1], [Part 2]) provides a detailed rebuttal to his arguments
  • The Appearance of a Scholar examines Abualrub's methodology
    In reaction to this, Abualrub published three long and incoherent articles. Our responses to some of his many claims:
    • On Abrogation and the Relationship between Islamic and Mosaic Law & Muhammad and the Mosaic Law
    • The Forgotten Wives: Explaining Away a Quranic Oversight

• Written in response to many of the claims made by Abualrub:
  • Women in Islam ([Part 1], [Part 2], [Part 3], [Part 4])
  • Women in the Bible ([Part 1], [Part 2])
• Abualrub's "next step" was made public in an email sent out by him on 28 January 2005:

  This is a general announcement from Jalal Abualrub (WWW.IslamLife.Com):

  I am currently writing a massive rebuttal against an article written by Sam Shamoun and posted by an Evangelical website that intentionally spreads hatred, misinformation and malice against Islam. The title of Shamoun’s article is, ‘Allah’s Guessing Game’; the title of my rebuttal is, ‘Shamoun’s Guessing Game.’

It took roughly one and a half years in which many of the above and below listed exchanges on other topics have taken place. On 20 June 2006 Abualrub finally published an article that dealt in part with Shamoun's article and could perhaps be understood as a first installment:

• Revisiting the Issue of Allah's knowledge
• Do the Authentic Teachings of Islam Result in Terrorism? — Answering Abualrub's Challenge ([Part 1], [Part 2])
• Did Jalal Abualrub Prove Craig Winn Wrong? (off site)
• Related to the above: What about God commanding the annihilation of the Amalekites?
• Kill Them Wherever You Find Them exposes some of his cover-up operations in a discussion on Jihad
• The Murder of Asma Bint Marwan Revisited
• Errors and Fallacies in his book "Holy Wars, Crusades, Jihad"
  • Part 1: Abualrub's definition of abrogation
  • Part 2: Abualrub's distortion of Biblical statements regarding the use of force
• Responses to his book "Muhammad: The Prophet of Mercy — 50 New & Humane Concepts Brought by Muhammad"
  • What Did Muhammad Really Bring?
  • Is Muhammad Really the Prophet of Mercy? (examining his claims about Sura 2:256)
• Responses to his debate material on the topic "Is Muhammad a Prophet?" (debate against David Wood)
  • Reexamining Satan’s Influence and Control over Muhammad: [Part 1], [Part 2]
  • Revisiting the issue of Muhammad’s marital privileges
  • Ja’far Ibn Abu Talib's testimony about Muhammad: [Part 1], [Part 2]
• A Collection of Responses to one Muslim crusader’s tirade against Christianity answers to Abualrub's series "Between 'Shubbiha Lahum' and Trinity".
• The Mutability of Allah
• Exposing Islam's Pentagonity
• Modalism, Polytheism or just plain old Quackerism! — Another Response to Jalal Abualrub's Foolishness and Blasphemies
• Revisiting the Issue of Puberty and Marriage: Examining Muhammad's Marriage with Aisha in light of Jewish Tradition
• Have You Been Invited to Allah's Brothel?
• The Doctrine of the Original Shin
• Muhammad and Islam – The Religion of Antichrist? (Part 1, Part 2)
• Part 1: Cross Dressing and Islam: An examination of Muhammad's Dress Code
  Part 2: The Meaning of Mirt and Thawb
  Appendix: Further References
• Answers to Abualrub's attack on the question "Is Allah's Day 1,000 or 50,000 years long?"
  • Jalal Abualrub's "pack of lies"
  • Stretching It - Abualrub and the divine rubberband timeline
  • The Spirit and the angels

• Allah of Islam: Is He Yahweh God of the Bible?
• Is 'Isa the true name of Jesus?
• The alleged superiority of Islam over Christianity: Analyzing Jalal Abualrub's Response to an Arab Christian ([Part 1], [Part 2])
• Response to Abualrub's Polemic The Genealogy of the ‘Son of God’ ([Part 1], [Part 2])
• Since Abualrub talks about the alcohol issue in various places, here are relevant papers in this regard:
  Islam and Wine Consumption, Muhammad, the Quran, and Prohibition: Islam's punishments for drinking and gambling,
  and our entry on WINE provides even more.

Replies to Omar Alhabeshi (who also publishes on islamlife.com)

• Were Jesus and Muhammad Sinless? — A reply in two parts: [Muhammad], [Jesus]
• Alleged contradictions between the accounts of John and Matthew regarding the calling of the first disciples

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