Do liberals protest Muslim teachings about evolution?
The only explicit reference to the creation of life in the Qur'an appears in the aforementioned Sūrat al-Anbiyāʼ, which Allah proclaims "We made out of water every living thing."
According to Muhammad Asad, "only water has the peculiar properties necessary for the emergence and development of life."
Sunni theologian Said Nursî stated the Earth was already inhabited by intelligent species before humankind.
He considered, supported by the hadiths from Ibn Abbas and Tabari, the Jinn lived here before but were almost wiped out by fire.
Few interpreters of the Quran believed that even before Jinn, other creatures like Hinn lived on the earth although they failed to provide any narration from Quran or authentic Hadith to support these claims.
The characters of Âdam and Ḥawwāh (Eve) appear in the Qur'an as the first man and woman.
While verses in the Quran indicate that Allah created Adam directly by his own hands and that Eve was created from Adam, a few scholars proposed that the verses could have multiple interpretations.Therefore, it is open to speculation of whether Adam and Hawwa evolved naturally from a common ancestor as Mohamed Ghlian asserts or were supernaturally created through a miracle by Allah as the majority of Islamic scholars, including Yasir Qadhi assert.
In his 1874 book titled History of the Conflict between Religion and Science, John William Draper, a scientist and contemporary of Charles Darwin, criticized the Catholic Church for its disapproval of "the Mohammedan theory of the evolution of man from lower forms, or his gradual development to his present condition in the long lapse of time."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_views_on_evolution