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…
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World
ONE OF THESE Syriac terms includes the word Qur’ān itself and its linguistic origin as a term distorted from the…
THE FIRST OF THESE is the theory of Muḥammad’s Qur’ān: in which the author of the Qur’ān is held to…
AT THE BEGINNING of his commentary, Luxenberg refers to al-Suyūṭī (1445-1505 CE), who mentions Abū al-Qāsim in his Languages of the…
THE FACT THAT the orientalist researcher Christoph Luxenberg was able to explain many of the dilemmas thanks to his recourse…
IN FACT THE ISSUE is not how the words were pronounced, but how they were written. The reason for this is…
BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION Mr Hisham makes the following observation: The Arabic language as spoken by the Bedouins of the…
FROM THE OUTSET, Claude Gilliot gets straight to the point: Some are complaining about the deteriorating situation of Oriental studies…
THIS CURRENT PREVAILING image, however, should not deceive us, as we labour under the illusion that the entire history of…
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE between two disciplines: the ‘ilm al-kalām, and the ‘ilm al-fiqh. They are not the same thing,…
IN THE VIEW of such as these, the Orientalists are simply contemporary heirs to the ‘interloper sciences’, and whom the…