Author(s): Ibn Warraq (editor)
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 424
Cover ......Page 1
Back Cover ......Page 4
Title ......Page 7
Contents ......Page 9
Part I: Introduction ......Page 11
1. Introduction - lbn Warraq ......Page 13
2. The Koran - Theodor Noldeke ......Page 40
Part II: The Collection and the Variants of the Koran ......Page 69
3. 'Uthman and the Recension of the Koran - Leone Caetani ......Page 71
4. Three Ancient Korans - Alphonse Mingana ......Page 80
5. The Transmission of the Koran - Alphonse Mingana ......Page 101
6. Materials for the History of the Text of the Koran - Arthur Jeffery ......Page 118
7. Progress in the Study of the Koran Text - Arthur Jeffery ......Page 139
8. A Variant Text of the Fatiha - Arthur Jeffery ......Page 149
9. Abu 'Ubaid on the Verses Missing from the Koran - Arthur Jeffery ......Page 154
10. Textual Variations of the Koran - David Margoliouth ......Page 158
Part III: The Sources of the Koran ......Page 167
11. What Did Muhammad Borrow from Judaism? - Abraham Geiger ......Page 169
12. The Sources of Islam - W. St. Clair-Tisdall ......Page 231
13. The Jewish Foundation of Islam - Charles Cutler Torrey ......Page 297
Part IV: Modern Textual Criticism of the Koran ......Page 353
14. Literary Analysis of Koran, Tafsir, and Sira: The Methodologies of John Wansbrough - Andrew Rippitt ......Page 355
Notes ......Page 369
Contributors ......Page 413
