Zayd ibn thabit biography of christopher
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Introduction
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Luxenberg Thesis
Luxenberg Thesis: the idea that Islam originated as a Monophysite Christian sect in eastern Syria. It assumes that the Quran was not written in Arabic but in Syriac-Arabic, which in turn presupposes that there has been a time in which the Quran was not recited, so that the believers could forget the original language.
It was not without Schadenfreude that the press published the story: there was no reason for the plane-crashers of 11 September 2001 to count on 72 virgins in paradise. They would only find grapes there. The reason for this disappointing news? A simple reading mistake in the text of the Quran.
The source of this surprising statement is the book under review: Christoph Luxenberg's Die Syro-Aramäische Lesart des Quran: Ein Beitrag zur Entschlüsselung der Quransprache (2000 Berlin). If the writer is right, he places a bomb under Islam that is comparable to the effects of Biblical textual criticism to Christianity. Understandably the author's name "Christoph Luxenberg" is a nom de plume of a professor in Semitic languages at a German university, according to articles in the press.
The statement "not virgins but grapes" is only a small side step in a book that argues a theory that reaches much further, this theory has hardly enjoyed any
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CHAPTER 2. The Life and Work of the Prophet
Peters, F. E.. "CHAPTER 2. The Life and Work of the Prophet". A Reader on Classical Islam, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 43-98. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400821181-005
Peters, F. (1994). CHAPTER 2. The Life and Work of the Prophet. In A Reader on Classical Islam (pp. 43-98). Princeton: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400821181-005
Peters, F. 1994. CHAPTER 2. The Life and Work of the Prophet. A Reader on Classical Islam. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 43-98. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400821181-005
Peters, F. E.. "CHAPTER 2. The Life and Work of the Prophet" In A Reader on Classical Islam, 43-98. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400821181-005
Peters F. CHAPTER 2. The Life and Work of the Prophet. In: A Reader on Classical Islam. Princeton: Princeton University Press; 1994. p.43-98. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400821181-005
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