Adaptation of Quranic stories of the Testaments: A Review and Critique of Dore Hadad Theory

Through a non-religious approach to the Holy Quran and its teachings, many orientalists have highlighted the presupposition of”the non-divine nature of the Qur’an” and carried out a lot of research on finding the origin of the Quran and its stories. They regard the Quran as a human book influenced by the other holy books especially the Torah and the Bible. They also believe that the Quranic stories are adapted from the previous holy books. Among their reasons is the similarity of stories in the Quran and the Testaments, a logical and well-reasoned answer to these doubts proves the divinity of the Holy Qur’an. By virtue of the religious evidence, the content of the historical propositions of the Qur’an and the Testaments and differentiating the artistic effects of the Quranic stories and those of the testaments, and also the valid non-religious reasons, the archeologists’ findings that confirm the Quranic stories and reject some of the statements of the testament. This paper, seeks to reject and repudiate the supposition that the Quranic stories are adapted from the Testaments.