What the Koran really says : language, text, and commentary / [print]
edited with translations by Ibn Warraq.
- Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, (c)2002.
- 702 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
PART 1. IndianaTRODUCTION : 1. Introduction 2. What Is the Koran? / by Toby Lester -- PennsylvaniaRT 2. BACKGROUND : 1. Towards a Prehistory of Islam PennsylvaniaRT 3. A QUESTION OF LouisianaNGUAGE : 1. Syriac Influence on the Style of the Koran 2. Some Additions to Prof. Jeffery's Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an 3. The Arabic Readers of the Koran 4. The Beginnings of Classical Arabic 5. The Role of the Bedouins as Arbiters in Linguistic Questions and the Mas'ala Az-Zunburiyya 6. Some Suggestions to Qur'an Translators PennsylvaniaRT 4. SOURCES OF THE KORAN: ESSENIAN, CHRISTIAN, ColoradoPTIC : 1. Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls 2. The Qumran Scrolls and the Qur'an 3. An Essenian Tradition in the Koran 4. A Qumranian Expression in the Koran 5. A Possible Coptic Source of a Qur'anic Text 6. Introduction to Raimund Kobert 7. The Shahadat az-zur: The False Witness 8. On the Meaning of the Three Final Words of Sura XXII.30-31 9. Early and Later Exegesis of the Koran: A Supplement to Or 35 by Ibn Warraq -- by Yehuda D. Nevo -- by Alphonse Mingana -- by D.S. Margoliouth -- by Paul E. Kahle -- by C. Rabin -- by Joshua Blau -- by A. Ben-Shemesh -- by Ibn Warraq -- by Eric R. Bishop -- by Marc Philonenko -- by Marc Philonenko -- by Wilson B. Bishai -- by Ibn Warraq -- by Raimund Kobert -- by Raimund Kobert -- by Raimund Kobert -- PART 5. SURAS, SURAS, SURAS : 1. Introduction to Sura IX.29 2. Some Minor Problems in the Qur'an 4. A Propos de Qur'an IX.29: Hatta Yu'tu L-Gizyata wa-hum Sagiruna 5. The Ancient Arab Background of the Koranic Concept al-Gizatu 'an Yadin 6. "'An Yadin" (Qur'an IX.29): An Attempt at Interpretation 7. Koran and Tafsir: The Case of "'an Yadin" / by Uri Rubin -- 8. Koran XXV.1: Al-Furqan and the "Warner" / by C. Heger -- 9. The Buddha Comes to China 10. The Secret Identity of Dhu l-Kifl PennsylvaniaRT 6. EMENDATIONS, IndianaTERPOLATIONS : 1. Studies Contributing to Criticism and Exegesis of the Koran 2. A Qur'anic Interpolation 3. Regarding Qur'an CI.6 by 4. Three Difficult Passages in the Koran 5. A Strange Reading in the Qur'an 6. Some Proposed Emendations to the Text of the Koran PennsylvaniaRT 7. Rhode IslandCHARD BELL: IndianaTRODUCTION AND ColoradoMMENTARY : 1. Introduction to Richard Bell 2. From IndianaTRODUCTION TO THE QUR'AN 3. From A ColoradoMMENTARY ON THE QUR'AN by Ibn Warraq -- by Franz Rosenthal3. Koran IX.29 by Claude Cahen -- by Meir M. Bravmann and Claude Cahen -- by Meir M. Bravman -- by M.J. Kister -- by Michael Schub -- by Michael Schub -- by J. Barth -- by A. Fischer -- A. Fischer -- by C.C. Torrey -- by C.C. Torrey -- by James A. Bellamy -- by Ibn Warraq -- by Richard Bell -- by Richard Bell. PART 8. POETRY AND THE KORAN : 1. The Strophic Structure of the Koran 2. On the Koran 3. On Pre-Islamic Christian Strophic Poetical Texts in the Koran: A Critical Look at the Work of Gunter Luling PennsylvaniaRT 9. MassachusettsNUSCRIPTS : 1. The Problem of Dating the Early Qur'ans 2. Observations on Early Qur'an Manuscripts in San'a E. Semitic Languages Family Tree -- F. Origin of the Alphabet -- G. Development of Aramaic Scripts -- H. A Comparative Table of Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic Scripts -- I. A Comparative Table of Nabataean and Arabic -- J. Nabataean and Arabic Inscriptions -- K. The Arabic Alphabet -- L. A Dot or Two Can Make All the Difference -- M. Arabia and the Near East -- N. List of Contributors. by Rudolf Geyer -- by Julius Wellhausen -- by Ibn Rawandi -- by Adolf Grohmann -- by Gerd-R. Puin Languages --
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