297.09021 OHL /1//1
Ohlig K.-H., Puin Gerd-R, ;
The Hidden Origins of Islam : New Research into Its Early History / Karl-Heinz Ohlig, Gerd-R Puin . — Amherst : Prometheus Books, ©2010. — ISBN 978-1-59102-634-1
ДКД 297.09021
ДКД 297.09021
Зміст:
Foreword

Islam’s Hidden Origins

Karl-Heinz Ohlig

Part I. The Early History of Islam

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 Informants of the Prophet

Caude Gilliot

4. Abd al-Malik b. Marwan and the Proess of the Quran’s Composition

Alfred-Louis de Premare

Part II New Aspects for the Emergence and Characteristic of Islam

5. A Personal Look at Some Aspects of the History of Koranic Criticism in the Nineteely and Twentieth Centuries

Ibn Warraq

6. Pre-Islamic Arabic – Koranic 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 Noseada

8. Early Evidences of Variant Readings in Quranic Manuscripts

Alba Fedeli

9. Leuke Kome = Laykah, the Arsians = Ashab al-Rass, and Other Pre-Islamic Names in the Quran: A Way Out of the Tanglewood?

Gerd-R.Puin

10. Syrian and Arabian Christianity and the Quran

Karl-Heinz Ohlig

Contributors
Анотація:
Despite Muhammad's exalted place in Islam, even today there is still surpisingly little actually known about this shadowy figure and the origins of the Qur'an because of an astounding lack of verifiable biographical material. Furthermore, most of the existing biographical traditions that can be used to substantiate the life of Muhammad date to nearly two centuries after his death, a time when a powerful, expansive, and idealized empire had become synonymous with his name and vision - thus resulting in an exaggerated and often artificial characterization of the prophetic figure coupled with many questionable interpretations of the holy book of Islam.
On the basis of datable and localizable artifacts from the seventh and eighth centuries of the Christian era, many of the historical developments, misconceptions, and fallacies of Islam can now be seen in a different light. Excavated coins that predate Islam and the old inscription in the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem utilize symbols used in a documented Syrian Arabic theology - a theology with Christian roots.
Interpreting traditional contexts of historical evidence and rereading passages of the Qur'an, the researchers in this thought-provoking volume unveil a surprising - and highly unconventional - picture of the very foundations of Islamic religious history.