The hidden origins of Islam : new research into its early history / edited by Karl-Heinz Ohlig and Gerd-R. Puin.
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TextPublication details: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2010.Description: 405 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781591026341 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1591026342 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 297.09/021 22 HID- 2010 400837
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Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword. Islam's "hidden" origins / Karl-Heinz Ohlig -- 1. The early history of Islam, following inscriptional and numismatic testimony / Volker Popp -- 2. A new interpretation of the Arabic inscription in Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock / Christoph Luxenberg -- 3. On the origin of the informants of the Prophet / Claude Gilliot -- 4. 'Abd al-Malik b. Marwan and the process of the Qur'an's composition / Alfred-Louis de Premare -- 5. A personal look at some aspects of the history of Koranic criticism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Ibn Warraq -- 6. Pre-Islamic Arabic - Koranic Arabic - Classical Arabic : a continuum? / Pierre Larcher -- 7. From Syriac to Pahlavi : the contribution of the Sassanian Iraq to the beginning of the Arabic writing / Sergio Noja Noseda -- 8. Early evidences of variant readings in Qur'anic manuscripts / Alba Fedeli -- 9. Leuke Kome = Laykah, the Arsians = Ashab al-Rass, and other pre-Islamic names in the Qur'an : a way out of the "tanglewood"? / Gerd-R. Puin -- 10. Syrian and Arabian Christianity and the Qur'an / Karl-Heinz Ohlig.