Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ibn Warraq.

Description

782 pages : illustrations, facsimiles; 24 cm

Subjects

• Qurʼan > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Qurʼan > Language, style
• Islam > Controversial literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. 1. Introduction. 1. Introduction / Ibn Warraq. 2. What Is the Koran? / Toby Lester -- Pt. 2. Background. 2. Towards a Prehistory of Islam / Yehuda D. Nevo -- Pt. 3. A Question of Language. 1. Syriac Influence on the Style of the Koran / Alphonse Mingana. 2. Some Additions to Prof. Jeffery's Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an / D. S. Margoliouth. 3. The Arabic Readers of the Koran / Paul E. Kahle. 4. The Beginnings of Classical Arabic / C. Rabin. 5. The Role of the Bedouins as Arbiters in Linguistic Questions and the Mas'ala Az-Zunburiyya / Joshua Blau. 6. Some Suggestions to Qur'an Translators / A. Ben-Shemesh -- Pt. 4. Sources of the Koran: Essenian, Christian, Coptic. 1. Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls / Ibn Warraq. 2. The Qumran Scrolls and the Qur'an / Eric R. Bishop. 3. An Essenian Tradition in the Koran / Marc Philonenko. 4. A Qumranian Expression in the Koran / Marc Philonenko.
• 5. A Possible Coptic Source of a Qur'anic Text / Wilson B. Bishai. 6. Introduction to Raimund Kobert / Ibn Warraq. 7. The Shahadat az-zur: The False Witness / Raimund Kobert. 8. On the Meaning of the Three Final Words of Sura XXII.30-31 / Raimund Kobert. 9. Early and Later Exegesis of the Koran: A Supplement to Or 35 / Raimund Kobert -- Pt. 5. Suras, Suras, Suras. 1. Introduction to Sura IX.29 / Ibn Warraq. 2. Some Minor Problems in the Qur'an / Franz Rosenthal. 3. Koran IX.29 / Claude Cahen. 4. A Propos de Qur'an IX.29: Hatta Yu'tu L-Gizyata wa-hum Sagiruna / Meir M. Bravmann and Claude Cahen. 5. The Ancient Arab Background of the Koranic Concept al-Gizatu 'an Yadin / Meir M. Bravmann. 6. "'An Yadin" (Qur'an IX.29): An Attempt at Interpretation / M. J. Kister. 7. Koran and Tafsir: The Case of "an Yadin" / Uri Rubin. 8. Koran XXV.1: Al-Furqan and the "Warner" / C. Heger. 9. The Buddha Comes to China / Michael Schub.
• 10. The Secret Identity of Dhu l-Kifl / Michael Schub -- Pt. 6. Emendations, Interpolations. 1. Studies Contributing to Criticism and Exegesis of the Koran / J. Barth. 2. A Qur'anic Interpolation / A. Fischer. 3. Regarding Qur'an CI.6 / A. Fischer. 4. Three Difficult Passages in the Koran / C. C. Torrey. 5. A Strange Reading in the Qur'an / C. C. Torrey. 6. Some Proposed Emendations to the Text of the Koran / James A. Bellamy -- Pt. 7. Richard Bell: Introduction and Commentary. 1. Introduction to Richard Bell / Ibn Warraq. 2. From Introduction to the Qur'an / Richard Bell. 3. From A Commentary on the Qur'an / Richard Bell -- Pt. 8. Poetry and the Koran. 1. The Strophic Structure of the Koran / Rudolf Geyer. 2. On the Koran / Julius Wellhausen. 3. On Pre-Islamic Christian Strophic Poetical Texts in the Koran: A Critical Look at the Work of Gunter Luling / Ibn Rawandi -- Pt. 9. Manuscripts. 1. The Problem of Dating the Early Qur'ans / Adolf Grohmann.
• 2. Observations on Early Qur'an Manuscripts in San'a' / Gerd-R. Puin -- App. B. Converting Flugel Koranic Verse Numbers into Standard Egyptian -- App. D. The Genetic Relationship among Semitic Languages / Merritt Ruhlen -- App. E. Semitic Languages Family Tree -- App. F. Origin of the Alphabet / I. J. Gelb -- App. G. Development of Aramaic Scripts -- App. H. A Comparative Table of Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic Scripts -- App. I. A Comparative Table of Nabataean and Arabic -- App. J. Nabataean and Arabic Inscriptions -- App. K. The Arabic Alphabet -- App. L. A Dot or Two Can Make All the Difference -- App. M. Arabia and the Near East.

ISBN

• 157392945X (alk. paper)
• 9781573929455 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001048789

OCLC

• ocm48170670
• SCSB-4302721

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries