''Iẓhār al-Ḥaqq, (also spelled as : Izhar-ul-Haq)'' () is a book by

Rahmatullah Kairanawi Rahmatullah Kairanawi al-Hindi (; 1818–1891) was a Sunni Muslim scholar and author who is best known for his work, '' Izhar ul-Haqq''. Background Kairanawi was born in Kairana, Muzaffarnagar in 1818. He is a descendant of the third Caliph, ...

. Kairanwi had written this book in response to the allegations made by certain Christian missionaries against Islam and especially to counter the ''Mizan al-Haqq'' of Karl Gottlieb Pfander against Islam. The book was originally written in

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in 1864, this six-volume book was later translated (or summarized) into English,

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and

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. Christine Schirrmacher describes the book:

Sources

Kairanawi made use of Western

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as well as theological works.

Urdu translation

Late Maulana Akbar Ali Khan of

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translated the book into Urdu.

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wrote commentary to it. He also wrote a preface to the book which now comes as a separate book, What is Christianity? The translation and commentary have been published in three volumes.Bible Say Quran Tak
Mufti Taqi Usmani.

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