The Problem of God's Self-Expression: A Christological Reading of the Qur'an

God spoke. And the sound echoed. But from that echo came not truth, but religions.

This is no tale of triumph. If God holds absolute power, if His word is complete, if revelation is truly divine, why do not one but many warring Gods walk the earth today? The wound, then, lies not in the human heart but in the method itself.

From the very beginning, the bond between God and humankind was caught in a single knot: being expressible. How does the infinite fit into the finite? How does the transcendent fall into language? Can the absolute remain undiminished once it touches a word? This book traces a long and painful history in which the word collapses under its own weight.

Hüseyin Doğan reads the Qur'an with christological eyes. He analyzes, with meticulous philology, the two dimensions of Rahman and Rahim, the journey of the Logos from Heraclitus through Philo to John, the shadow Arius (history's most fruitful heretic) casts upon the Qur'an, the distinction between Hu and Allah, and the standing of Jesus as the Word of God.

This is not a history of opposition between Islam and Christianity, but the story of a shared secret between two traditions. An invitation to see the theological architecture hidden beneath familiar words, for those who dare to look beneath the surface.