Shawqi Abou Khalil 's approach to defending the Holy Qur'an through his book: “Islam in the Dock”

Abstract

God has ordained for this nation scholars and preachers who have devoted their lives and time to the Holy Qur’an and Islam. They attempted with all their might to stand on the frontiers of Islam with their pens and ideas against any enemy or stalker, whether it was from the hateful Orientalists or the modernist imitators . Among them there is Dr. Shawqi Abou Khalil the rabbinic scholar , who endeavoured through his books to defend Islam and its history from blasphemy suspicions , as his book “Islam in the Dock” is one of the most famous books to defend the Holy Qur’an. As it has become well known and spread throughout the world and has been translated into other languages, it indicates the evidence of the scientific value of the book. Futhermore, The doctor used a distinctive approach where he made a form of trials, in which the accused, who is often a suspicion of one of the orientalists or a group of them, and a defendant, which is Islam represented by the doctor’s response, and a judge, who is the right reason  and  sober logic, he does not issue the provision in the end, but leaves it to the reader to judge by himself.

Therefore, Dr. Shawqi used multiple approaches to defend the Holy Qur’an and its sciences, as these approaches were integrated and intertwined with each other, noting all the suspicion. This research came to explain these approaches and their promise,so as to show their effectiveness and feasibility or not