29 Ibn Kathir, Tafsir Ibn Kathir, vol. 6, 506–7. 30 Jeffery, Foreign Vocabulary. 31 Fr<strong>an</strong>z Rosenthal, “Some Minor Problems in the Qur'<strong>an</strong>,” in Ibn Warraq, What the Kor<strong>an</strong> Really Says, 332–34. 32 Rosenthal, “Some Minor Problems,” 337. 33 Al-Mahalli <strong>an</strong>d as-Suyuti, Tafsir al-Jalalayn, 1357. 34 Gilliot, “Reconsidering the Authorship of the Qur'<strong>an</strong>,” 98. 35 Ali, The Me<strong>an</strong>ing of the Holy Qur'<strong>an</strong>. L<strong>an</strong>guage modernized. 36 “The Contradictions of the Qur'<strong>an</strong>,” Behind the Veil, ch. 11, http://www.<strong>an</strong>swering-islam.org/BehindVeil/btv11.html. 37 Christoph Luxenberg, The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Kor<strong>an</strong>: A Contribution to the Decoding of the L<strong>an</strong>guage of the Kor<strong>an</strong> (Berlin: Verlag H<strong>an</strong>s Schiler, 2000), 9. 38 Alphonse Ming<strong>an</strong>a, “Syriac Influence on the Style of the Kor<strong>an</strong>,” in Ibn Warraq, What the Kor<strong>an</strong> Really Says, 175. 39 Ibid., 176, 180. 40 Ibid., 178. 41 Ibid., 178–79. 42 Ibid., 188. 43 Ibid., 181–82. 44 Ibid., 184–86. 45 Pickthall, The Me<strong>an</strong>ing of the Glorious Kor<strong>an</strong>. 46 Ming<strong>an</strong>a, “Syriac Influence,” 187. 47 Jeffery, Foreign Vocabulary. 48 Ibid. 49 Ali, The Me<strong>an</strong>ing of the Holy Qur'<strong>an</strong>. 50 Al-Misri, Reli<strong>an</strong>ce of the Traveller, 011.3, 5. 51 Jeffery, Foreign Vocabulary. 52 Ibn Warraq, “Introduction to Sura IX.29,” in Ibn Warraq, What the Kor<strong>an</strong> Really Says, 319. 53 Rosenthal, “Some Minor Problems,” 324. 54 Uri Rubin, “Kor<strong>an</strong> <strong>an</strong>d Tafsir: The Case of ‘<strong>an</strong> Yadin,’” in Ibn Warraq, What the Kor<strong>an</strong> Really Says, 372–80. Chapter 8: What the Qur'<strong>an</strong> May Have Been 1 Pickthall, The Me<strong>an</strong>ing of the Glorious Kor<strong>an</strong>. L<strong>an</strong>guage modernized. 2 Tafsir al-Jalalayn, 770. 3 For more on furq<strong>an</strong>, see Fred M. Donner, “On Qur'<strong>an</strong>ic Furq<strong>an</strong>,” Journal of Semitic Studies 52 (2007): 279–300. 4 C. Heger, “Kor<strong>an</strong> XXV.1: Al-Furq<strong>an</strong> <strong>an</strong>d the ‘Warner,’” in Ibn Warraq, What the Kor<strong>an</strong> Really Says, 387–89. 5 M. Abul Quasem, tr<strong>an</strong>s. <strong>an</strong>d ed., The Recitation <strong>an</strong>d Interpretation of the Qur'<strong>an</strong>: Al-Ghazali's Theory (Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 1979), 40–41 (quoted in Abdullah David <strong>an</strong>d M. S. M. Saifullah, “Concise List of Arabic M<strong>an</strong>uscripts of the Qur'<strong>an</strong> Attributable to the First Century Hijra,” Islamic Awareness, June 14, 2008, http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Qur<strong>an</strong>/Text/Mss/hijazi.html). 6 Keith E. Small, Textual Criticism <strong>an</strong>d Qur'<strong>an</strong> M<strong>an</strong>uscripts (L<strong>an</strong>ham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011), 69–72. 7 David Margoliouth, “Textual Variations of the Kor<strong>an</strong>,” in Ibn Warraq, The Origins of the Kor<strong>an</strong>, 158. 8 Ming<strong>an</strong>a, “Syriac Influence,” 181–82. 9 Ibn Warraq. Virgins?, 50. 10 Quoted in Gabriel Said Reynolds, “Introduction: Qur'<strong>an</strong>ic Studies <strong>an</strong>d Its Controversies,” in Reynolds, Historical Context, 17.
11 Luxenberg, Syro-Aramaic, 71. 12 Günter Lüling, A Challenge to Islam for Reformation (Delhi: Motilal B<strong>an</strong>arsidass Publishers, 2003), 1. 13 Christoph Luxenberg, “Christmas in the Kor<strong>an</strong>,” tr<strong>an</strong>s. Ibn Warraq. An abridged version of this article was first published in Germ<strong>an</strong> in Imprimatur 1 (March 2003): 13–17. 14 Luxenberg, Syro-Aramaic, 104. 15 Ibid., 105–6. 16 Luxenberg, “Christmas in the Kor<strong>an</strong>.” 17 Luxenberg, Syro-Aramaic, 142. 18 Ibid., 256. 19 Ibid., 254. 20 Ibid., 259. 21 Ibid., 288. 22 Ibid., 291. 23 Joh<strong>an</strong>nes J. G. J<strong>an</strong>sen, “Rawwahnahum,” www.arabistj<strong>an</strong>sen.nl/rawwahnaahum.pdf, June 16, 2008. 24 Ibn Raw<strong>an</strong>di, “On Pre-Islamic Christi<strong>an</strong> Strophic Poetical Texts in the Kor<strong>an</strong>: A Critical Look at the Work of Günther Lüling,” in Ibn Warraq, What the Kor<strong>an</strong> Really Says, 671. 25 Ibid., 673. 26 Ibid., 670. 27 Lüling, A Challenge to Islam, 31. 28 Ibn Raw<strong>an</strong>di, “Pre-Islamic Christi<strong>an</strong> Strophic Poetical Texts,” 672–73. 29 Ibid., 671–72. 30 Luxenberg, “Christmas in the Kor<strong>an</strong>.” 31 Ibid. 32 Ibid. 33 Samir Khalil Samir, “The Theological Christi<strong>an</strong> Influence on the Qur'<strong>an</strong>,” in Reynolds, Historical Context, 149. 34 Samir, “Theological Christi<strong>an</strong> Influence,” 149. 35 Luxenberg, “Christmas in the Kor<strong>an</strong>.” 36 Samir, “Theological Christi<strong>an</strong> Influence,” 149–50. 37 Luxenberg, “Christmas in the Kor<strong>an</strong>.” 38 Lüling, A Challenge to Islam, 476. 39 Ibn Kathir, Tafsir Ibn Kathir, 10:251. 40 Lüling, A Challenge to Islam, 440–50. 41 For more on the Christological controversies, see J. N. D. Kelly, Early Christi<strong>an</strong> Doctrines, rev. ed. (S<strong>an</strong> Fr<strong>an</strong>cisco: Harper S<strong>an</strong> Fr<strong>an</strong>cisco, 1978). 42 See Adolph Harnack, History of Dogma, tr<strong>an</strong>s. Neil Buch<strong>an</strong><strong>an</strong>, vol. 1 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1901), 291n407. 43 Pseudo-Clementine Homilies, 16.15, http://www.compassionatespirit.com/Homilies/Book-16.htm. 44 Lüling, A Challenge to Islam, 476ff.; see also Ibn Raw<strong>an</strong>di, “Pre-Islamic Christi<strong>an</strong> Strophic Poetical Texts,” 680ff. 45 Lüling, A Challenge to Islam, 476n66. 46 Ibid., 476. 47 Ibid. 48 Ibn Raw<strong>an</strong>di, “Pre-Islamic Christi<strong>an</strong> Strophic Poetical Texts,” 680–81.
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