The Baha'i Studies Listserv > Rashid Khalifa also initially attracted a flurry of initial support > and interest from orthodox Muslim because he claimed to have > discovered a series of mathematical "miracles" and particularly > elegant patterns in the Quran. Eventually his system broke down and > instead of saying he was wrong he claimed that the verses in question > were wrong because they didn't fit his algorithm.
Dear Gilberto, He had everything come out to the number 19 which intrigued the Baha'is as well for obvious reasons. That same kind of algorithim had been used previously on the Torah with the same results. Fact of the matter is you could use it on virtually any text. I had no heard that the system broke down however. As you may know Rashid Khalifa was eventually assassinated by Muslim extremists, the same ones who killed Prof. Ismael Faruqi. > > He also claimed to be a prophet/messenger... I lived in Tucson where he operated his own masjid and I know that he had a cult-like following but I never heard he claimed prophethood. > What do you mean by Khawarij? It was my understanding that the > original Khawarij don't really exist anymore but I at least assumed > they were Muslim. Similarly I thought the Ibadis also believed in the > same Quran. The Ibadis have historical ties to the Kharijites though they currently reject the term. Bin Laden, of course, has no historical ties to the Kharijites but it seems to me that most jihad wa hijr groups share significant portions of Kharijite ideology. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-511118-274...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai...@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
