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Luxenberg Thesis
Luxenberg Thesis: the idea that Islam originated as a Monophysite Christian sect in eastern Syria. It assumes that the Quran was not written in Arabic but in Syriac-Arabic, which in turn presupposes that there has been a time in which the Quran was not recited, so that the believers could forget the original language.
It was not without Schadenfreude that the press published the story: there was no reason for the plane-crashers of 11 September 2001 to count on 72 virgins in paradise. They would only find grapes there. The reason for this disappointing news? A simple reading mistake in the text of the Quran.
The source of this surprising statement is the book under review: Christoph Luxenberg's Die Syro-Aramäische Lesart des Quran: Ein Beitrag zur Entschlüsselung der Quransprache (2000 Berlin). If the writer is right, he places a bomb under Islam that is comparable to the effects of Biblical textual criticism to Christianity. Understandably the author's name "Christoph Luxenberg" is a nom de plume of a professor in Semitic languages at a German university, according to articles in the press.
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Was Muhammad Epileptic?
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History of the Quran
The history of the Quran, the holy book of Islam, is the timeline ranging from the inception of the Quran during the lifetime of Muhammad (believed to have received the Quran through revelation between 610 and 632 CE[1]), to the emergence, transmission, and canonization of its written copies. The history of the Quran is a major focus in the field of Quranic studies.
In Sunni tradition, it is believed that the first caliphAbu Bakr ordered Zayd ibn Thabit to compile the written Quran, relying upon both textual fragments and the memories of those who had memorized it during Muhammad's lifetime,[2] with the rasm (undotted Arabic text) being officially canonized under the third caliph Uthman ibn Affan (r. 644–656 CE),[3] leading the Quran as it exists today to be known as the Uthmanic codex.[4] Some Shia Muslims believe that the fourth caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib was the first to compile the Quran shortly after Muhammad died.[5] The canonization process is believed to have been highly conservative,[6] although some amount of textual evolution is also indicated by the existence of codices like the Sanaa manuscript.[7][8] In 1972, in a mosque in the city of Sana'a, Yemen, manus