Comments on: King David was a Muslim

By: Dale Andersen

Dale Andersen — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:00:35 +0000

Thanks. Great post about David the Saint. I linked you to my Blog.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:44:41 +0000

It is my understanding that we do share a common heritage with Muslims. We both believe in everything in the Bible down to Abraham. At that point, Jews/Mormons/Christians believe that Isaac (born to Sarah) received the birthright. But Muslims believe that Ishmael received the birthright. (I wish I could find the source. I searched through my last 5 scripture notebooks and can’t find it. Sorry.) It actually reminds me a lot of the RLDS church – how the priesthood passed to Brigham Young, but Emma thought it should pass to her son. So, we share a common heritage up to the point of Joseph Smith’s death, when we go one way and they go another.

By: Jami

Jami — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:35:02 +0000

And speaking of spam, you have a nice oozing slice of it over on “You Americans,” comment 135. http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2008/01/you-americans/#comments

By: Steve Evans

Steve Evans — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:34:10 +0000

obviously, the Jonathan the Spammer above is not J. Stapley, our own resident and beloved spammer.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:21:00 +0000

nice
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By: Jamal

Jamal — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:04:20 +0000

Regarding the early written version of the Qur’an, it is also important to recognize a few important linguistic features of early Arabic. Written Arabic today and for most of Islamic history has a full range of vowelling and diacritical marks that leave no ambiguity in meaning when fully written out. However, the character set of the first written Qur’an’s was still in development and was lacking in both “short” vowels (three vowels in Arabic, a, i, and u – but there are short and long versions of both, the long always being written out but the short not necessarily so and in early Arabic script not at all) and many of the “dots” necessary to distinguish one letter from another. For example, depending on position in the word, the letters b, t, th, and y could all look the same in early Arabic script. Obviously that could have presented some interpretation problems. That said, the Qur’an was first a carefully cultivated oral record in a society that highly prized orators (poets were highly esteemed and sometimes could decide the fate of wars without bloodshed), so it seems to me unlikely that this presents any problem to the integrity of the Qur’anic text. If one does wish however to see early textual versions of the Qur’an before the Arabic alphabetic system was complete, one can do no better than the Beit Al Quran in Manama, Bahrain. A top notch museum with one of the best collections of ancient and modern Qur’an’s I’ve ever come across. And a real treat for afficionados of Arabic calligraphy. They have a pretty good website here as well:

http://www.beitalquran.com/

By: Jami

Jami — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:59:25 +0000

Eric Russell (26), Try http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/67567

By: cj douglass

cj douglass — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:41:34 +0000

If any one is interested, The Message starring Anthony Quinn is a great film about Muhammad. In fact, you never see the prophet throughout the whole movie (to the approval of Muslims everywhere)

By: Eric Russell

Eric Russell — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:23:10 +0000

What’s up with the random swipe at the Daily Universe on the sidebar? Did they defend Butters? I can’t find such an article anywhere. I’m trying to figure out what would warrant such a comment.

By: Bruce V C

Bruce V C — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:38:01 +0000

(The error message from your webserver said that it assumed incoming text was latin-1 Swedish instead of Unicode. Hence, the Arabic got replaced by question marks. Darn.)