The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran

Christoph Luxenberg
Verlag Hans Schiler
ISBN 3-89930-088-2
Release date: 2007
1. Edition
Hardcover, 352 pages
Availability: next-day delivery
40.00 €
A Contribution to the Decoding of the Koran - This book approaches the Koran with the tools of modern scientific philology, and outlines a method to shed light onto koranic passages that are among those counted as 'dark' or 'mysterious'. Revised and expanded translation of the wave-making German original.
The most fascinating book ever written on the language of the Koran, and if proved to be correct in its main thesis, probably the most important book ever written on the Koran. (The Guardian)
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