BorealThe Koran Six1 - Revelations and Generalizations Shared ProphetsHow the Bible Came To Be How the Koran Came To Be Repetitions The Torah4 - Adam - Origins and the First Covenant Adam's Dust Origins Adam's Clay Origins Allah's Covenant with Adam and His Progeny Adam's Soul Mate First in a Verse Law of Retaliation A Simple Storyline The Noah Surah The Spit of Angels, Noah's Age, and What Became of His Wife The Answerer and the Boiling Oven Criminals on the Ark Noah in Hud What became of Noah's Son Where is al-Judi? No Mercy for Noah's Son Noah, Two Short Versions Hud I - The Ramparts Hud II - The Prophet Hud Hud III - The Poets The Destruction of 'Ad and the Great Calamity A Muslim, a Friend and a Patriarch Challenger of Idols Isma`il Abraham at Mecca Abraham and His Father Allah's Safety Argument Abraham Uninterrupted Lot Uninterrupted Jacob and the Breaking of Blood Ties The Vision Sold Into Slavery Joseph and the Governor's Wife Joseph in Jail Joseph and the King's Dream Appointed Treasurer A Camel's Load Joseph and the King's Drinking Cup The Other Brother All's Well That Ends Well Why the News from the Unseen 12 - Jethro and the Destruction of Midian Day of the Parasol Was Median Destroyed by an Earthquake? 13 - Moses - The Familiar Story A Favourite of Allah Raising Mount Sinai The Fire on the Mountain The Golden Calf and Want of a Death Wish Moses and Pharaoh’s Magicians The Plagues The Pathetic Tenth Allah’s Gift to the Jews Death of Pharaoh Pharaoh on Judgement Day Egypt Changes Ownership The Ten Commandments The Never-Ending Punishment of the Jews The Promised Land Moses at the Gates The Promise and the Threat 14 - More Moses and a Familiar Story Six Short Recapitulations Moses Uninterrupted - Taha Moses Uninterrupted - The Poets 15 - Moses - Strange But True! The Hidden Believer at Pharaoh’s Court The Psalms David and Solomon Together Solomon and the Queen of Sheba The Light-Footed Horses Death and the Fate of the People of Sheba Allah Does Not Compel People to Believe, Except When He Does 21 - Job, Elijah, Ezekiel and Enoch The Gospels22 - Muhammad’s Introduction to Christianity Allah the Protector of Monasteries, Churches, Synagogues and Mosques The Inspiration for a New Religion 23 - The Prophet as Arbitrator of Scriptures Advice for the Arbitrator Deuteronomy 22:23-4 Upheld The Prophet Jesus If Allah had wanted a Son A Mere Servant Jesus Has No Power of Intercession Was Created, Does Not Create Jesus Will Plead for Mercy 26 - Jesus and the Virgin Mary Jesus - Conceived Jesus - Birth Jesus - First Words The Last Supper The Crucifixion Myth Resurrection The True Story 29 - The Way - Jesus or Muhammad? Love and Hate Incarnate Getting To Know AllahA Conditional Type Of Mercy Terrified Into Believing Allah’s Way of Old Unbelievers Not by Choice 31 - Salih and The Destruction of Thamud Al-Rass A Litany of Death and Destruction Allah’s Covenant with His Prophets The World Before and After the Messengers Why No Roofs and Stairways of Silver Messengers to the Common People Allah Days or the Nearer Punishment 33 - Allah and the Crime of No Longer Believing The Example of Pharaoh Repentance Denied "Kill them wherever you find them" Telling Apostates and Believers Apart On Judgement Day 34 - Allah vs. Alleged Associates The Largest and Heaviest of Gods Phantasmagorical Creations of God and Man “Is there, then, another god with Allah?” Goddesses and the Fathers Who Worshipped Them Children! Do Not Obey Parents Who Worship ... Gog and Magog Alexander and the Wall The True Promise Introduction Variations Parables and Slaves Mixed Metaphors 36 - Allah, Two Boys and A Dog Grave Sins - An Introduction The Greatest Sin of All The Top 40 10 Made Up Sins Tips for Avoiding the Grave Sins 38 - Allah and the Ptolemaic Universe The Near-Earth Constellations 39 - Allah and the Shape of the Earth Floating on a Sea of Mud Pointed Revelations About a Flat Earth Who Stops the Sky From Falling? Full Circle in Seven Verses The Names Of The Months Year Zero 41 - Allah and the Beginnings of Life A Fluid Beginning Bones Then Flesh Beware of the Clot It's All About the Sperm Things Which Don’t Come in Pairs Allah as Proof that Imperfection Is Pervasive The Myth and the Reality How the Jinn Heard About the Koran etc. How the Jinn Heard About the Koran Jinn and Men Together on Judgement Day Messengers to the Jinn The Jinn and the Prophet's Grandfather 43 - Allah and She Who Blows in Reeds 45 - All-Sufficient Heart Reader 48 - Allah on the Present Life 49 - Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs Not Doing What is Being Asked as a Sign Why No Signs for the Messenger Doomed Children at Play The Responsible Adult v. The Adolescent More Destruction, Less Creation Playing With Toys Hooked On Praise I AM the Greatest! Worship ME!Negotiating the Prayers The Call to Prayer Prayers in War and Peace An Answer to a Prayer The Night Too Is For Praying The Prayer of the People of Paradise 53 - Pilgrimages - The Hajj and the Umrah The Importance of Mecca Safa and Marwa Deaths, Molestations and Managing the Hajj Safely accommodating millions more pilgrims at the Hajj The Anthropological Impact of the Hajj Post Pilgrimage Rituals and Early Departures Ramadan in the Land of the Midnight Sun If Truth Be Told!55 - Allah Does Not Care for Homosexuals The Foul Act Crime and Punishment Where Homosexuals Go When They Die 56 - Allah Despises the Riba-Eaters 57 - Allah Loves His Messenger Perhaps More Than He Loves Orphans 58 - Allah Loves His Cattle; Dogs, Not So Much An Ode to Cattle Domesticated in Paradise Water, Men and Cattle Allah on the Versatility of His Cattle Slicing the Ears of Cattle Dogs in a Cattle World 59 - Allah's Charity Is Not All It Seems 61 - Immutable Truths About Slavery A God’s Dilemma Why Slavery Cannot Simply Be Abolished Slavery and the Prophet 62 - The Babylonian Exile and the Roman Diaspora The Table Is Set Pork is for Other Gods Vegetarians are not Muslims What Do the Jews Have To Do With It! Where You May Dine Why Some Gods Go Hungry Women and the KoranWhy Muslim Men Are Always Right 68 - Who Gets What - Wills and Testaments Wills and Witnesses Husband Dies Wife Dies A Vicious Circle Women As Fields To Be Ploughed A Contractual Affair Women of the Faith Women of the Book and Slave-Girls Daughters-in-Law Widows Orphaned Girls Spinsters and Prostitutes The Suckling Imperative The Coitus Imperative Polygamy – For or Against? Divorce by Zihar 71 - The Perfect Wife - A Man and His Wives In the Prophet's House 72 - The Perfect Wife - A Taste of Honey 73 - A Child Bride’s Indiscretion A Lost Verse Remembered Speculation About the Lost Verse A Prophet and a Prude The Cult of Masculinity 76b - Women and What It Means To Be Civilized Women of Islam Women of Sumer Civilization In The Balance The Hereafter77 - The Living Dead - Life in the Grave The Great Blasphemy The Punishment is Coming, the Punishment is Coming! A Descent Into Madness Answering Your Questions about the Day You're Making That Up, The Charmer, The Driver, Children Scared White, Location Answering Your Questions ... (continued) The Trick Question, Blue-Eyed With Terror Answering Your Questions ... (continued) No Excuses, Witnesses for the Prosecution, Losing It, The Naked Ones Questions About Bones Partners in Crime Earth and the End of Eternity Eternity May Not Be Forever Uninterrupted Madness The Dispatched Ones, The Cleaving Asunder, The Rending Asunder, The Earthquake, The Chargers, The Clatterer The Nuts and Bolts Location and Construction, Distance from Hell, Gardens and Springs, Buildings Food and Refreshments Clothing etc. The Tracks of Heaven A Man's Paradise An Eyewitness Account On the Wall Between Heaven and Hell The Bridge Over Hell An Eyewitness Account Women on Fire Jihad - The Enemy88 - Vanquished Enemies of Old The Meccans Who Should Have Emigrated The Meccans and their Allies Who Fought... The Arab Hypocrites and Apostates The Jews of the Hejaz The Antagonizers Unbelievers of Yore Jews The Perverted Christians Polytheists Reformers The True Unbelievers Atheists Jihad - Rules and Rewards90 - Killing Unbelievers Haram Idolaters Christians and Jews 91 - Killing Unbelievers Halal 92 - Killing During The Sacred Months The Murder of Amr-ben-al Hadra’mi 94 - Stay-at-Home Warriors and Female Jihadists 95 - Emigrating in the Cause of Allah Someone’s Gotta Die Sex and the Booty Greetings and the Booty Sedition, A New Definition Jihad - GenesisKinsmen, Parents and Children Women Choose Sides Sparrows at War Spoils of War Who's to Blame for the Defeat The Jews of Medina Battle of the Ditch 105 - The Massacre of the Banu Qurayzah The Broken Covenant A Change of Direction - The Qibla Revelations 106 - The Treaty of Hudaibiyah The Bedouins Learn Their Lesson Mecca Surrenders Spend Freely and Spend Wisely Jihad - Expansion110 - Announcing a Universal War War's First Casualty The Destruction of the Christian Mosque of Medina The Three Sincere Believers Who Lied 113 - The Religion of Peace in Persia Who First Destroyed the Birthplace of Zoroaster Jihad - ChildrenA Very Special School Lessons In Cruelty Willing Executioners From Merchant to MessengerAllegations of Plagiarism and Fabrication Trading in Revelations Punishment for Misrepresenting Allah's Book Not Worthy An Object of Curiosity Sorcery Laughing Stock A Gullible Man A Poet Possessed A Man Bewitched A Madman 120 - Allah's Response to the Mocking A Tradition of Mocking and Punishment Powerless to Stop the Mocking No Angels Intervene and Why The Jinn Believe In You Put Up With It, Help Is On the Way More Questions than Answers Nothing But Rhetoric Who Will Have the Last Laugh About a Foreign Messenger About a Foreign Koran 123 - Not His Brother's Keeper Paying for the Message 125 - A Teacher and His Star Pupil The Pupil Admonished 127 - The Seal of the Prophets The End is Near A Matter of Time A Disagreement Among Scholars Show me Hell or Give Me Death 128 - If You Can't Believe God ... Ephemeral Revelations On Etiquette Paying for an Audience Man on a Mission 129 - Revenge and An Extraordinary Accomplishment A Prophet on His Own No Jesus-like Miracles For the Love of a Father 130 - Conceit and the Damning of Innovation Witnesses132 - Mughirah - Enemy of the Prophet What Mughirah Heard What Mughirah May Not Have Heard Abu Jahl What Aisha Saw Rockin the Ka’ba 135 - Thirteen Wives and a Concubine Khadijah, Sauda, Aisha, Hafsa, Zaynab b. Khuzayma, Umm Salama, Zaynab b. Jahsh, Juwayriyya, Rayhanah, Umm Habida, Safiyya, Mariya, Maymuna, Asma The Last Sermon136 - The Prophet's Last Sermon It Wasn’t Always Like That143 - Two Once Extraordinary Verses About Tolerance Revelation 2:62 Revelation 109:6 Afterword145 - The Skimper, the Profligate and the Pious PostscriptStopping the Draining of the Light
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