“In some pious Muslim circles it is held that worn-out or damaged copies of the Koran must be removed from circulation; hence the idea of a grave, which both preserves the sanctity of the texts being laid to rest and ensures that only complete and unblemished editions of the scripture will be read.”
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Og her bringes der disse indvendinger mod Luxembergs arbejde til torvs:
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François de Blois points to a couple of grammatical mistakes in Luxenberg’s book and calls him a ‘dilettante’.[18] His grasp of Syriac is limited to knowlegde of dictionaries and in his Arabic he makes mistakes that are typical for the Arabs of the Middle East. The latter is corroborated by the professor of Islam at Leyden University Hans Jansen: Luxenberg is not a professor at a German university, he is a Lebanese Christian. This would explain Luxenberg’s ‘Christian agenda’: Christians from the Middle East have been involved in harsh religious debates with Muslims for centuries.
Angelika Neuwirth, a scholar of Islam from Berlin, dedicates a few words to Luxenberg in an article and mainly emphasises the lack of interdisciplinary research. He does indeed raise many questions that could be answered by other disciplines, but its not entirely fair to blame this on Luxenberg. Her remark that his conclusions are not fully justified by the results of his research is much more important. A word in Arabic looking similar to a Syriac word is to be expected, since the two are closely related languages. The use of loanwords also doesn’t automatically mean that the unchanged and full meaning is borrowed as well. If qur’an was indeed derived from Syriac Qeryana ‘lectionary’, that still does not mean that the Qur’an actually was a Christian lectionary, at most it had a comparable function: text to be recited.[19]
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Men alligevel forkastes bogen ikke fordi den er meget grundig og angriber koranen fra en helt relevant vinkel.
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]]>Og hvor maget ballade kan der ikke komme ud af hvis forskning viser at koranen oprindelig stammer fra en kristen menighed, og at Muhamed aldrig har eksisteret som andet end en sproglig misforståelse?
http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/413867:Kronik–KRONIK–Koranen-begyndte-som-en-kristen-bog?all=1