| Description |
405 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The early history of Islam. The early history of Islam, following inscriptional and numismatic testimony / Volker Popp -- A new interpretation of the Arabic inscription in Jerusalem's Dome of the Rrock / Christoph Luxenberg -- On the origin of the informants of the Prophet / Claude Gilliot -- `Abd al-Malik b. Marwan and the process of the Qur'an's composition / Alfred-Louis de Premare -- New aspects for the emergence and characteristic of Islam. A personal look at some aspects of the history of Koranic criticism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Ibn Warraq -- Pre-Islamic Arabic--Koranic Arabic--classical Arabic : a continuum? / Pierre Larcher -- From Syriac to Pahlavi : the contribution of the Sassanian Iraq to the beginning of the Arabic writing / Sergio Noja Noseda -- Early evidences of variant readings in Qur'anic manuscripts / Alba Fedeli -- Leuke kome = Laykah, the Arsians = 'Ashab 'al-Rass, and other pre-Islamic names in the Qur'an : a way out of the "tanglewood"? / Gerd-R. Puin -- Syrian and Arabian Christianity and the Qur'an / Karl-Heinz Ohlig. |
| Subject |
Islam -- History.
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| Added Author |
Ohlig, Karl-Heinz, 1938-
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Puin, Gerd-R.
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| ISBN |
9781591026341 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1591026342 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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