The Qur’ān according to critical research – 2
THE QUR’ĀN IS NOT a historical source that we can rely on, it was not written in the Hijaz and…
The Qur’ān according to critical research – 1
THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY of the Qur’ān cannot dispense with questions concerning the author, the history of its authorship, the literary…
Intellectual pollution or polluted thinking? – 2
THIS THOUGHT, disguised by religion, but which is full of Christian or Jewish apocrypha and false, distorted interpretations, comes about…
Theories on the origin of the Qur’ān – 2
ONE OF THESE Syriac terms includes the word Qur’ān itself and its linguistic origin as a term distorted from the…
Theories on the origin of the Qur’ān – 1
THE FIRST OF THESE is the theory of Muḥammad’s Qur’ān: in which the author of the Qur’ān is held to…
Syriac and Aramaic origins of the Qur’an – 2
AT THE BEGINNING of his commentary, Luxenberg refers to al-Suyūṭī (1445-1505 CE), who mentions Abū al-Qāsim in his Languages of the…
Syriac and Aramaic origins of the Qur’ān – 1
THE FACT THAT the orientalist researcher Christoph Luxenberg was able to explain many of the dilemmas thanks to his recourse…
The Qur’anic script – some clarifications – 2
IN FACT THE ISSUE is not how the words were pronounced, but how they were written. The reason for this is…
The Qur’anic script – some clarifications – 1
BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION Mr Hisham makes the following observation: The Arabic language as spoken by the Bedouins of the…
Van Ess and the great battle over Orientalism
FROM THE OUTSET, Claude Gilliot gets straight to the point: Some are complaining about the deteriorating situation of Oriental studies…