What the Koran Really Says: Language, Text and Commentary

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 18
Transliteration and Other Technical Matters......Page 24
PART 1. INTRODUCTION......Page 30
1. Introduction Ibn Warraq......Page 31
2. What Is the Koran? Toby Lester......Page 225
PART 2. BACKGROUND......Page 275
2. Towards a Prehistory of Islam Yehuda D. Nevo......Page 276
PART 3. A QUESTION OF LANGUAGE......Page 347
1. Syriac Influence on the Style of the Koran Alphonse Mingana......Page 348
2. Some Additions to Prof. Jefferv\'s Foreign Vocabulary of the Our\'an D. S. Margoliouth......Page 397
3. The Arabic Readers of the Koran Paul E. Kahle......Page 414
4. The Beginnings of Classical Arabic C. Rabin......Page 436
5. The Role of the Bedouins as Arbiters in Linguistic Questions and the Mas\'ala Az-Zunburiyva Joshua Blau......Page 474
6. Some Suggestions to Our\'an Translators A.Ben-Shemesh......Page 497
PART 4. SOURCES OF THE KORAN: ESSENIAN, CHRISTIAN, COPTIC......Page 506
1. Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls Ibn Warraq......Page 507
2. The Qumran Scrolls and the Qur\'an Eric R. Bishop......Page 519
3. An Essenian Tradition in the Koran Marc Philonenko......Page 558
4  A  Qumranian  Expression in the  Koran  Marc Philonenko......Page 592
5. A Possible Coptic Source of a Qur\'anic Text Wilson B. Bishai......Page 603
6. Introduction to Raimund Kobert Ibn Warraq......Page 622
7. The Shahadat az-zur: The False Witness Raimund Kobert......Page 632
8. On the Meaning of the Three Final Words of Sura XXII.30-31 Raimund Kobert......Page 636
9. Early and Later Exegesis of the Koran: A Supplement to Or 35 Raimund Kobert......Page 653
PART 5, SURAS, SURAS, SURAS......Page 663
1. Introduction to Sura IX.29 Ibn Warraq......Page 664
2. Some Minor Problems in the Qur\'an Franz. Rosenthal......Page 670
3. Koran IX.29 Claude Cohen......Page 719
4. A Propos de Our\'an IX.29: Hatta Yu\'tu L-Gizvata wa-hum Sagiruna Mel\'r M. Bravmann and Claude Cahen......Page 731
5. The Ancient Arab Background of the Koranic Concept al-Gizatu  can Yadin Me\'ir M. Bravmann......Page 736
6. An Yadin\" (Our\'an ix.29) An attempt at interpretation M. J. Kister......Page 766
7. Koran and Tafslr: The Case of \"can Yadin\" Uri Rubin......Page 785
8. Koran XXV. 1: Al-Furqan and the \"Warner\" C. Heeer......Page 821
9. The Buddha Comes to China Michael Schub......Page 829
10. The Secret Identity of Dhu 1-Kifl Michael Schub......Page 836
PART 6. EMENDATIONS, INTERPOLATIONS......Page 841
1. Studies Contributing to Criticism and Exegesis of the Koran J. Barth......Page 842
2. A Our\'anic Interpolation A. Fischer......Page 926
3. Regarding Our\'an CI.6 A. Fischer......Page 985
4. Three Difficult Passages in the Koran C. C. Torrey......Page 994
5. A Strange Reading in the Our\'an C. C. Torrey......Page 1026
6. Some Proposed Emendations to the Text of the Koran James A. Bellamy......Page 1042
PART 7. RICHARD BELL: INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY......Page 1101
1. Introduction to Richard Bell Ibn Warraq......Page 1102
2. From Introduction to the Qar\'an Richard Bell......Page 1119
3. From A Commentary on the Qur\'an Richard Bell......Page 1182
PART 8. POETRY AND THE KORAN......Page 1343
1. The Strophic Structure of the Koran Rudolf Geyer......Page 1344
2. On the Koran Julius Wellhausen......Page 1390
3. On Pre-Islamic Christian Strophic Poetical Texts in the Koran: A Critical Look at the Work of Giinter Ltiling Ibn Rawandi......Page 1404
PART 9. MANUSCRIPTS......Page 1531
1. The Problem of Dating the Early Qur\'ans Adolf Grohmann......Page 1532
2. Observations on Early Our\'an Manuscripts in Sanca Gerd-R. Ruin......Page 1586
APPENDICES......Page 1598
A. Abbreviations......Page 1599
B. Converting Fliigel Koranic Verse Numbers into Standard Egyptian......Page 1606
C. Glossary......Page 1613
D. The Genetic Relationship among Semitic Languages Merritt Ruhlen......Page 1635
E. Semitic Languages Family Tree......Page 1637
F. Origin of the Alphabet I. J. Gelb......Page 1639
G. Development of Aramaic Scripts......Page 1641
H. A Comparative Table of Hebrew, Svriac, and Arabic Scripts......Page 1645
I. A Comparative Table of Nabataean and Arabic......Page 1647
J. Nabataean and Arabic Inscriptions......Page 1649
K. The Arabic Alphabet......Page 1657
L. A Dot or Two Can Make All the Difference......Page 1659
M. Arabia and the Near East......Page 1661
N. List of Contributors......Page 1663
Back Cover......Page 1680