The hidden origins of Islam
Subtitle: new research into its early history
By: edited by Karl-Heinz Ohlig and Gerd-R. Puin.
Contributors: Ohlig, Karl-Heinz, 1938-; Puin, Gerd-R.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781591026341
Subjects: Islam -- History
Table of contents: title: "Why 'shadowy beginnings' of Islam?" / Karl-Heinz Ohlig; title: The early history of islam: The early history of Islam, following inscriptional and numismatic testimony / Volker Popp; title: A new interpretation of the Arabic inscription in Jerusalem's Dome of the Rrock / Christoph Luxenberg; title: On the origin of the informants of the Prophet / Claude Gilliot; title: Abd al-Malik v. Marwan and the process of the Qur'an's composition / Alfred-Louis de Prémare; title: New aspects for the emergence and characteristic of Islam : A personal look at some aspects of the history of Koranic criticism in 19th and 20th centuries / Ibn Warraq; title: Pre-islamic Arabic-Koranic Arabic-classical Arabic: a continuum? / Pierre Larcher; title: From Syriac to Pahlavi: the contribution of the Sassanian Iraq to the beginning of the Arabic writing / Sergio Noja Noseda; title: Early evidences of variant readings in Qurʼānic manuscripts / Alba Fedeli; title: Leuke kome / Laykah, the "Arsians" / Gerd-R. Puin; title: Raisons d'espérer / Mondher Sfar; title: Syriac and Arabic Christianity and the Qurʼān; title: Karl-Heinz Ohlig.