1. Rashad Khalifa was an Egyptian-American biochemist, closely associated with the United Submitters International, an organization that promotes the practice and study of Quranism.
17 Facts About Rashad Khalifa
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Rashad Khalifa is known for his claims regarding the existence of a Quran code, known as The Number 19.
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Rashad Khalifa's changing views regarding the essence of faith, recorded in his two renditions of the Quran, and declaring himself as a divine messenger who communicated with Gabriel, drew opposition from other Muslims.
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On January 31,1990, Rashad Khalifa was found stabbed to death inside the Mosque of Tucson, in Arizona, which he founded.
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Rashad Khalifa obtained an honors degree from Ain Shams University, before he immigrated to the United States in 1959.
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Rashad Khalifa later earned a Master's Degree in biochemistry from University of Arizona and a Ph.
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Rashad Khalifa became a naturalized US citizen and lived in Tucson, Arizona.
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Rashad Khalifa was married to an American woman and they had a son and a daughter together.
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Rashad Khalifa worked as a science adviser for the Libyan government for about one year, after which he worked as a chemist for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
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Rashad Khalifa next worked as a senior chemist in Arizona's State Office of Chemistry in 1980.
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Rashad Khalifa founded the United Submitters International, an organization that promulgated his beliefs.
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Rashad Khalifa saw his role as purging the accretions that found their way into Islam via hadith and sunnah, which he claimed were corrupted.
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Rashad Khalifa published his findings in 1973 in the book Miracle of the Quran: Significance of the Mysterious Alphabets, in 1981 in the book The Computer Speaks: God's Message to the World, and in 1982 in the book Quran: Visual Presentation of the Miracle.
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Rashad Khalifa claimed that the Quran, unlike the Hadith, was incorruptible because it contained a mathematical structure based on the number 19, namely the Quran code or known as Code 19.
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However, Rashad Khalifa believed this mathematical structure prevented the Quran from being adulterated and that it was proof of its divine authorship.
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Rashad Khalifa's research did not receive much attention in the West.
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On January 31,1990, Rashad Khalifa was found stabbed to death inside the mosque of Tucson, Arizona, which he founded.