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What is Wahhabi Islam?</a><br><br> <h2>Schools of Law</h2> <a href="Hanafi-Islam.html">What is Hanafi Islam?</a><br><br> <a href="Hanbali-Islam.html">What is Hanbali Islam?</a><br><br> <a href="Maliki-Islam.html">What is Maliki Islam?</a><br><br> <a href="Salafi-Islam.html">What is the Salafi movement in Islam?</a><br><br> <h2>The Qur'an</h2> <a href="what-is-the-Quran.html">What is the Qur’an?</a><br><br> <a href="al-Qadr-in-Islam.html">What is <em>al-Qadr</em> in Islam?</a><br><br> <a href="errors-Quran.html">Are there errors in the Qur'an (Koran)?</a><br><br> <a href="Quran-annul-Bible.html">Does the Qur'an replace the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Quran-reject-Bible.html">Do the Qur'an and Muhammad affirm or reject the Bible? Should a Muslim read the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="satanic-verses.html">What are the satanic verses?</a><br><br> <h2>Traditional Writings</h2> <a href="hadith-in-Islam.html">What is the hadith in Islam?</a><br><br> <a href="Muslim-Barnabas.html">Should Muslims read the gospel of Barnabas as the true story of Jesus?</a><br><br> <h2>The Bible</h2> <a href="Bible-vs-Quran.html">How does the preservation of the Qur’an compare to the preservation of the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Christians-corrupted-Bible.html">Have Christians corrupted the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="Muhammad-Bible.html">Does the Bible prophesy the coming of Muhammad?</a><br><br> <a href="which-book.html">How do we know that the Bible is the Word of God, and not the Apocrypha, the Qur'an, the Book of Mormon, etc.?</a><br><br> <hr><br> <center><strong class="return"> Return to:<br><br> <a class="button-link box-shadow" href="content_Islam.html">Content Directory — Questions about Islam</a><br><br> <a class="button-link box-shadow" href="content_Islam_beliefs.html">Islamic beliefs</a><br><br> <a class="button-link box-shadow" href="content_Islam_studies.html">Bible Studies for Muslims</a><br><br> </strong> </center> <hr><br> <center><strong class="return"> Return to:<br><br> <a class="button-link box-shadow" href="content.html">Content Index</a></strong></center> </div> </section> <section class="homepage-sponsor desktop-hide"> <div class="desktop-hide" align="center"><div class="adManager-placeholder-mobile"></div></div> </section> <section class="subscribe gradient-to-br" style="--color-start: #153c59; --color-end: #1b537c"> <div class="grid"> <div class="gradient-to-br box-shadow" style="--color-start: #2c6482; --color-end: #64547b"> <h5>Subscribe to the</h5> <h3>Question of the Week</h3> <p>Get our Question of the Week delivered right to your inbox!</p> <iframe src="scommon/qotw.htm" title="question of the week" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="100%"></iframe> </div></div> </section> </main> <footer-element></footer-element> <center> <div itemprop="dateModified" content="2022-01-04">This page last updated: January 4, 2022</div></center> <script src="scripts-2025.js"></script> <div style="display: none;" itemprop="publisher" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Organization"><meta itemprop="name" content="GotQuestions.org"><div itemprop="logo" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject"> <img src="https://www.gotquestions.org/img/GQlogo.png"><meta itemprop="url" content="https://www.gotquestions.org/img/GQlogo.png"><meta itemprop="width" content="400"><meta itemprop="height" content="79"> </div></div> </body> </html>