What the Koran really says: language, text, and commentary

by Ibn Warraq

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Full title :What the Koran really says : language, text, and commentary / edited with translations by Ibn Warraq.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2002.

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Publisher(s):Prometheus Books
Place of Publication:Amherst, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2002.

The Physical Object

Description:702 pages : : map ; : 24 cm.

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ISBN:157392945X, 9781573929455
oclc:ocn961608946
LC Classification:BP169
Dewey Decimal:297.1/226

PART 1. INTRODUCTION : 1. Introduction / by Ibn Warraq -- 2. What Is the Koran? / by Toby Lester -- PART 2. BACKGROUND : 1. Towards a Prehistory of Islam / by Yehuda D. Nevo -- PART 3. A QUESTION OF LANGUAGE : 1. Syriac Influence on the Style of the Koran / by Alphonse Mingana -- 2. Some Additions to Prof. Jeffery's Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an / by D.S. Margoliouth -- 3. The Arabic Readers of the Koran / by Paul E. Kahle -- 4. The Beginnings of Classical Arabic / by C. Rabin -- 5. The Role of the Bedouins as Arbiters in Linguistic Questions and the Mas'ala Az-Zunburiyya / by Joshua Blau -- 6. Some Suggestions to Qur'an Translators / by A. Ben-Shemesh -- PART 4. SOURCES OF THE KORAN: ESSENIAN, CHRISTIAN, COPTIC : 1. Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls / by Ibn Warraq -- 2. The Qumran Scrolls and the Qur'an / by Eric R. Bishop -- 3. An Essenian Tradition in the Koran / by Marc Philonenko -- 4. A Qumranian Expression in the Koran / by Marc Philonenko -- 5. A Possible Coptic Source of a Qur'anic Text / by Wilson B. Bishai -- 6. Introduction to Raimund Kobert / by Ibn Warraq -- 7. The Shahadat az-zur: The False Witness / by Raimund Kobert -- 8. On the Meaning of the Three Final W…