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245	0	0	_aWhat the Koran really says : _blanguage, text, and commentary / _cedited with translations by Ibn Warraq.
260			_aAmherst, NY : _bPrometheus Books, _c2002.
263			_a0202
300			_a782 p. : _bill., facs. ; 24 cm.
336			_2rdacontent
337			_2rdamedia
338			_2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_gPt. 1. _tIntroduction. _g1. _tIntroduction / _rIbn Warraq. _g2. _tWhat Is the Koran? / _rToby Lester -- _gPt. 2. _tBackground. _g2. _tTowards a Prehistory of Islam / _rYehuda D. Nevo -- _gPt. 3. _tA Question of Language. _g1. _tSyriac Influence on the Style of the Koran / _rAlphonse Mingana. _g2. _tSome Additions to Prof. Jeffery's Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an / _rD. S. Margoliouth. _g3. _tThe Arabic Readers of the Koran / _rPaul E. Kahle. _g4. _tThe Beginnings of Classical Arabic / _rC. Rabin. _g5. _tThe Role of the Bedouins as Arbiters in Linguistic Questions and the Mas'ala Az-Zunburiyya / _rJoshua Blau. _g6. _tSome Suggestions to Qur'an Translators / _rA. Ben-Shemesh -- _gPt. 4. _tSources of the Koran: Essenian, Christian, Coptic. _g1. _tIntroduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls / _rIbn Warraq. _g2. _tThe Qumran Scrolls and the Qur'an / _rEric R. Bishop. _g3. _tAn Essenian Tradition in the Koran / _rMarc Philonenko. _g4. _tA Qumranian Expression in the Koran / _rMarc Philonenko.
505	8	0	_g5. _tA Possible Coptic Source of a Qur'anic Text / _rWilson B. Bishai. _g6. _tIntroduction to Raimund Kobert / _rIbn Warraq. _g7. _tThe Shahadat az-zur: The False Witness / _rRaimund Kobert. _g8. _tOn the Meaning of the Three Final Words of Sura XXII.30-31 / _rRaimund Kobert. _g9. _tEarly and Later Exegesis of the Koran: A Supplement to Or 35 / _rRaimund Kobert -- _gPt. 5. _tSuras, Suras, Suras. _g1. _tIntroduction to Sura IX.29 / _rIbn Warraq. _g2. _tSome Minor Problems in the Qur'an / _rFranz Rosenthal. _g3. _tKoran IX.29 / _rClaude Cahen. _g4. _tA Propos de Qur'an IX.29: Hatta Yu'tu L-Gizyata wa-hum Sagiruna / _rMeir M. Bravmann and Claude Cahen. _g5. _tThe Ancient Arab Background of the Koranic Concept al-Gizatu 'an Yadin / _rMeir M. Bravmann. _g6. _t"'An Yadin" (Qur'an IX.29): An Attempt at Interpretation / _rM. J. Kister. _g7. _tKoran and Tafsir: The Case of "an Yadin" / _rUri Rubin. _g8. _tKoran XXV.1: Al-Furqan and the "Warner" / _rC. Heger. _g9. _tThe Buddha Comes to China / _rMichael Schub.
505	8	0	_g10. _tThe Secret Identity of Dhu l-Kifl / _rMichael Schub -- _gPt. 6. _tEmendations, Interpolations. _g1. _tStudies Contributing to Criticism and Exegesis of the Koran / _rJ. Barth. _g2. _tA Qur'anic Interpolation / _rA. Fischer. _g3. _tRegarding Qur'an CI.6 / _rA. Fischer. _g4. _tThree Difficult Passages in the Koran / _rC. C. Torrey. _g5. _tA Strange Reading in the Qur'an / _rC. C. Torrey. _g6. _tSome Proposed Emendations to the Text of the Koran / _rJames A. Bellamy -- _gPt. 7. _tRichard Bell: Introduction and Commentary. _g1. _tIntroduction to Richard Bell / _rIbn Warraq. _g2. _tFrom Introduction to the Qur'an / _rRichard Bell. _g3. _tFrom A Commentary on the Qur'an / _rRichard Bell -- _gPt. 8. _tPoetry and the Koran. _g1. _tThe Strophic Structure of the Koran / _rRudolf Geyer. _g2. _tOn the Koran / _rJulius Wellhausen. _g3. _tOn Pre-Islamic Christian Strophic Poetical Texts in the Koran: A Critical Look at the Work of Gunter Luling / _rIbn Rawandi -- _gPt. 9. _tManuscripts. _g1. _tThe Problem of Dating the Early Qur'ans / _rAdolf Grohmann.
505	8	0	_g2. _tObservations on Early Qur'an Manuscripts in San'a' / _rGerd-R. Puin -- _gApp. B. _tConverting Flugel Koranic Verse Numbers into Standard Egyptian -- _gApp. D. _tThe Genetic Relationship among Semitic Languages / _rMerritt Ruhlen -- _gApp. E. _tSemitic Languages Family Tree -- _gApp. F. _tOrigin of the Alphabet / _rI. J. Gelb -- _gApp. G. _tDevelopment of Aramaic Scripts -- _gApp. H. _tA Comparative Table of Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic Scripts -- _gApp. I. _tA Comparative Table of Nabataean and Arabic -- _gApp. J. _tNabataean and Arabic Inscriptions -- _gApp. K. _tThe Arabic Alphabet -- _gApp. L. _tA Dot or Two Can Make All the Difference -- _gApp. M. _tArabia and the Near East.
630	0	0	_aQurʼan _xLanguage, style.
630	0	0	_aQurʼan _xCriticism, interpretation, etc.
650		0	_aIslam _vControversial literature.
700	0		_aIbn Warraq.
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