tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61692249197088100762012-02-16T11:03:16.024-08:00Assoc. Professor Dr Mohd Arip Kasmonoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169224919708810076.post-53710574049915979312008-12-25T15:26:00.000-08:002008-12-29T17:11:43.109-08:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The orientalists are the scholars who study the eastern religions especially Islam. Historically they studied Islam in order to combat Islam and many were employed by the western governments especially Britain, Germany, France and Holland. The orientalists studied Islam and gave their views and criticism on Islam. One of the most notorious among them was Snaouke Houranje aka Imam Abdul Ghafoor, the orientalist who was planted by the Dutch into the Indonesian society to so</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">w schism among Muslim in Indonesia, especially among the "Kaum Muda-The Young Blood" and "Kaum Tua-The old blood".<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">CRITICISM ON THE QURAN<br /><br /></span>The orientalists, through what they claimed as scholarly studies on Islam made subtle and unfounded accusations against the truth and the originality of the Quran. Montgomory Watt, Wil</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">liam Muir (1809-1905), Theodor Noldeke (1836-1930), Edward Henry Palmer (1840-1882), John Meadow Rodwell (1808-1900), Athur Stanley Tritton (1881-1973) and James Kritzeck (1930), Athur Jeffry (1892-1959) focused their criticism on the Quran. One of the most virulent criticism on the Quran is that the arrangement of the chapters (surah) of the Quran is flawed and it is supposed, as they claimed to follow the chronological order. The arrangement of the Quran was done by Muhammad himself or some orientalists claimed that it was Zaid ibn Thabit.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The western orientalist up and until these days claimed that the Quran is flawed. One of the many accusation is that the arrangement of the chapters of the Quran should follow the chronological orders. The chronological order is as follow:<br />al-Alaq: 1<br />al-Qalam 2</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">al-Muzammil 3<br />al-Mudathir 4</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">al-fatehah 5<br /></span>al-Masad 6<br />al-Takwir 7</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">al-A'ala 8</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">al-Layl 9<br />al-Fajr 10<br />al-Dhuha 11<br />al-Asr 13</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">all-Adia 14<br />al-Kawthar 15<br />al-Takahthur 16<br />al-Fil 19<br />al-Falaq 20<br />al-Nas 21<br />al-Ikhlas 22<br />al-Sham 26</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">al-Tin 28<br />Quraysh 29<br />al-Qariyah 30<br />al-Humazah 32</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />Only the chronological arrangement of 30 chapters are shown here. If the chapters of the Quran are arranged in the chronological order, the scattered graph obtained by using the Micro Soft Excel is as shown below.<br /><br /></span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DX6CxVOxAEU/SVl04dzpyaI/AAAAAAAAADU/YGgeDtkdOPA/s1600-h/chronology.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DX6CxVOxAEU/SVl04dzpyaI/AAAAAAAAADU/YGgeDtkdOPA/s320/chronology.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285384151118760354" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6169224919708810076-5371057404991597931?l=westernorientalismfallacies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Assoc. Professor Dr Mohd Arip Kasmonoreply@blogger.com1