The Origins of Islam - 1.2 The Koran: The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran

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In this episode, I'm looking at Christoph Luxenberg's work who has opened the door to a whole new approach at analysing the Koran. Luxenberg found many Aramaic words and phrases which allowed him to make the previously obscure passages of the Koran accessible. The result was surprising. At it's core, the Koran turns out to be the book of anti-Trinitarian Christians.

#Quran #Islam #Origin #Script #History #Education #Religion #Arabic #Aramaic #Luxenberg #Christian

References for this episode:

Luxenberg, Christoph. "A New Interpretation of the Arabic Inscription in Jerusalem’s
Dome of the Rock'". In: The Hidden Origins of Islam: New Research Into its Early History. Prometheus Books, 2010, pp. 125–151.

Luxenberg, Christoph. "Die syrische Liturgie und die "geheimnisvollen Buchstaben" im Koran--Eine
liturgievergleichende Studie''. In: Schlaglichter: Die ersten beiden islamischen Jahrhunderte. Inârah Vol. 3. Schiler, 2008, pp. 411–456.

Luxenberg, Christoph. The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran: A Contribution to the Decoding of the Language of the Koran. Berlin: Schiler, 2007.
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The "Origin of Islam" series is intended to provide a big-picture look at how Islam started, where it came from, how it evolved and how we ended up with the religion we know of today. I'm introducing the historical critical method as it's applied to the Quran and paint a new narrative based on primary evidence and linguistic analysis.
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