is the main question in all of the differences between Muslims and Christians. This page will focus on answering this question by examining his own claims.

An introduction to this is given in

The Angel of the Lord - Who is He?
Al-Masihu Isa (Jesus is the Messiah) - What does that mean?
The Crucifixion of Jesus - historicity, meaning, moral objections, etc.

The "I AM" Sayings of Jesus by Adel Mohammed El Naggar and a scholar's article on the same topic.

Jesus, the Light and the Fragrance Of God
The New Testament on the Worship given to Jesus: Its Significance and Implications for the Deity of Christ
and plenty of other articles on Christology by Sam Shamoun are found here and here.

The titles of Jesus - What is their meaning?

True Worship (answers the "worship me" part of the above question).
Response to the Muslim pamphlet Is Jesus Really God?
The Way, the Truth, and the Life

An Explanation of the Incarnation and the Biblical View of Allah for Muslims
More thoughts on the Incarnation
Why God Became Man
The Coming of the Christ
The Mystery of God Incarnate (response to Hick)
Was Jesus only sent to the Jews? - Jesus' Ministry - Limited, Universal or Both?

Jesus as the Son of God
The Son of God in the Bible and the Qur'an
What does it mean when we say "Jesus is God"?
The Deity of Christ (lists of Biblical evidence): [One], [Two]
The Divine Claims of Jesus (scholarly article, long, worth your time)

The Qur'an

An Evaluation of the Muslim Claims

Before criticizing any book, one should read it and get to know it. However, the Qur'an is not an easy book to understand.
A Topical Study of the Qur'an is a helpful starting point to get an overview on its major topics.

The Muslim claims about the Qur'an concentrate around the topics of

An overview article touching on many of the above issues:
The Alleged Divine Origin of the Qur'an: [Part 1], [Part 2] (off site)

Comparing the best arguments for Christianity and Islam:
The Resurrection Versus the Qur’an In the Light of Logic

Textual Integrity (today's text is exactly the same as recited by Muhammad)
Logical Consistency (no contradictions within the Qur'an).
Miraculous Features
- Supernatural Eloquence
- Scientific statements far ahead of its time
- Numerical miracles
- Prophecies

Further issues in need to be investigated are

Incompleteness and Incoherence of the Qur'an
Is the Quran Preserved? examines a theo-logical problem
Abrogation in the Qur'an
- Abrogated Verses Of the Quran
- Abrogation in the Koran
- The Problem of Abrogation in the Quran
- Abolishing what Satan proposes? — A Fresh Look at the Reason for Abrogation in the Quran
- Promise and fulfillment in the Bible (in contrast to abrogation)
- Biblical Consummation versus Islamic Abrogation: [Part 1], [Part 2]
- Various articles with information and thoughts on the issue of abrogation: [*], [*], [*], [*], [*], [*], [*]
Sources of the Qur'an
- Legends, Myths and Fables incorporated into the Qur'an
- The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an
The interpretation of the Qur'an
- Themes in the Qur'an (teachings of the Qur'an on various topics)
  - What the Qur'an says about the Bible (overview page)
- Commentary on individual passages (an alternative Tafsir)
- E. M. Wherry's Comprehensive Commentary on the Qur'an
Different Versions of the Qur'an
Issues regarding Translation of the Qur'an
- Translations of the Koran (history, overview) [also as PDF]
- Translating the Qur'an
- Is The Qur'an Translatable? Early Muslim Opinion
- Assessing English Translations of the Qur'an

Women in Christianity and Islam

Overview articles

Women in the Qur'an
Muhammad's Low Opinion of Women
Top ten rules in the Quran that oppress and insult women
Women in the Bible: [Part 1], [Part 2]
Women in Islam: [Part 1], [Part 2], [Part 3], [Part 4]

Books

Discussion of individual aspects

Did Allah forget the wives?
'Iddah rules for divorced and widowed women
The majority in hell are women?
Muhammad and the treatment of wives
Women under Islamic Law -- an Iranian lawyer reports about systematic inequality and severe oppression
New Study Shows Polygamy Leads to Higher Levels of Crime, Violence, Poverty, and Gender Inequality

Answers to various Muslim Polemics

Women In Islam Versus Women In The Judaeo-Christian Tradition: The Myth And The Reality
Responses to Dr. Jamal Badawi's papers:
- The Status of Women in Islam
- Gender Equity In Islam
The Rights of Women in the Bible and Quran (in answer to Osama Abdallah's challenge)
- Second response to Osama Abdallah:
  Revisiting the case for the honorific position of women in Holy Bible in contrast to their degradation in Islam:
  [Part 1], [Part 2]
Domestic Violence in the Quran
To Beat Or Not To Beat
Why Christians do not allow Polygamy
The "more women than men" argument
Overview on web articles on Women in Islam
Comparison: Women's rights before Islam and according to Islam

Further links of related interest:

The Bible

On the alleged corruption of the Bible

Muslim questions directed towards the Bible come in different categories ...

Inspiration and Canon (Which book are or should be in the Bible?)
Preservation of the Text (Textual Criticism)
Bible Versions
Interpretation of the text (Bible Commentary)
History, Archaeology and the Bible
Bible, Faith and Science
Errors and Contradictions in the Bible?
Miscellanea

Inspiration and Canon

Bible Versions

(See also: Qur'an Variants & Qur'an Versions)

Differing versions of the same story in different accounts given by the Qur'an

Unsorted Miscellanea

What about the Pornographic Language in the Bible?
Inappropriate language in the Bible? : dog, swine, ass, and cannibalism
Believing all of God's revelation
The history of the Gospels is very different from the popular Muslim myths.
Bible Corruption?
A "Muslim style" argument for the authenticity of the Gospel
The Muslim who-when-where-how-what-why-multi-problem
Who wrote the gospels?
Who wrote the Gospels in the New Testament?
Early Muslims did not believe in Bible Corruption
Evidence from the early Christian Hymns
Did the Roman empire distort the New Testament documents?
The Case for Christianity also deals with historicity and authenticity of the Bible
Gospel according to Mark Was Probably Written around AD 50
Further reasons why the Bible is authentic
The Silence of the Scriptures: An Argument for Inspiration
On the Samaritan Pentateuch
Did Christians burn the books of their opponents? and is what we have today just the position of those who won and the "true Christians" disappeared as a persecuted minority?
Pseudonymous Epistles?
The language(s) of Jesus and the New Testament
Common logical fallacies in the Muslim arguments on Bible and Qur'an.
Consonants and Vowels In the Hebrew Script (intro how Hebrew is written and this explanationn itself also shows the extreme care with which the Bible text has been copied)

Does "Bias" render the NT unreliable?

Further links of interest:

What about the variant readings in the Qur'an manuscripts?

Why So Many Bible Translations? [versions of translations, not versions of Bibles]
Comments on "accurate" Bible translations

Muslims have done very little original scholarly research into the Bible, but they are increasingly using the material produced by the atheists and liberal Bible scholars. Therefore, it is no longer enough to respond to the classical misunderstandings and attacks but we also need to present answers to the topics usually rather to be found on the atheists agenda. On these issues we will mainly present links to other sites since this is not really the main focus of "Answering Islam".

Gnosticism and the Gnostic Jesus & The Gnostic Gospels: Are They Authentic?
Is the Gospel of Thomas Reliable?
The historical reliability of the gnostic gospels
Doubting the Gospel of Thomas
Do the many "contradictions and errors" in the Bible not prove that the Bible is corrupted?
What about the Jesus Seminar?
Many more valuable articles...

Being a non-Muslim under Islamic rule

The theory and the reality ...

The central goal of Islam is to establish Islamic law in every country, and this is the declared purpose of many Islamic organizations also in the USA and in Europe. What could the implications be for your life? What can we learn from the past?