Description
Adam : Between Evolution, Theistic Evolution & Revelation By Ibrahim Elshahat
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ISBN: 9789675699870
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Author: Ibrahim Elshahat
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Book Binding: Softcover
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Pages: 217
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Size: 9.0 x 6.0 x 0.6 inch
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Publication year: 2022
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Language: English
About This Book:
This research project is a qualitative investigation into the life of Adam, looking at it from several philosophical and theological angles. In order to answer the crucial question of how mankind first came into being, the research tries to examine many narratives and hypotheses on the origin of man.Theistic evolutionary approaches and the Theory of Evolution are thoroughly investigated and critically analyzed in the paper. The academics aim to analyze and comprehend the story of Adam within an Islamic framework by adding insights from religious literature, such as the Qur'an and reliable Sunnah. Through the prism of the Islamic viewpoint, it largely focuses on contrasting the religious perspective with scientific theories. This work is a qualitative study in which the story of Adam has been examined from different scientific and religious approaches. The study analyzed different accounts of the main theories and addressed the critical issue of the Origin of Man. It compared the origin of man from a religious perspective and concluded with the most authentic account of the story of Adam. A critical analysis was done on the basis of the Theory of Evolution, Theistic Evolutionary Approaches, focusing on the Islamic perspective, to interpret the account of Adam mentioned in the religious texts. The study concluded that the non-methodological, inauthentic, and contradicting attempts to interpret the religious account of Adam from an evolutionary perspective was completely unsuccessful, affirming the miraculous creation of Adam as detailed in the Qur’an and authentic Sunnah.
