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Has anyone here analyzed this? It's the best book so far about linguistic analysis of the Koran. It's based in part on the ideas of Alphonse Mingana. http://books.google.de/books?id=227GhaeKYl4C&pg=PP1&dq=intitle:The+intitle:Syro-Aramaic+intitle:Reading+intitle:of+intitle:the+intitle:Koran+i...

Why is a tree used as a symbol?

http://www.christoph-heger.de/palimpse.htm

A Qur'an Palimpsest from the Sanaa Qur'ans

http://www.christoph-heger.de/Lueling_C ... ntents.pdf

Contents

http://www.mlbd.com/BookDecription.aspx?id=8552

A Challenge To Islam For Reformation
The Rediscovery And Reliable Reconstruction Of A Comprehensive Preislamic Christian Hymnal Hidden In The
by Gunter Luling

http://en.qantara.de/content/islamic-studies-on-christian-strophes-in-the-koran Islamic Studies On Christian Strophes in the Koran In his life's work, German theologian Günter Lüling challenges Islam to a Reformation. Wolfgang Günter Lerch read his book "A Challenge to Islam for Reformation&quo...

I had postulated that veneration of Ali existed in some gnostic or syncretic sect unrelated to, and preceding Islam, which was later accommodated by the Abbasid regime. The following is cited by Beaufort: http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/gno/gjb/index.htm Gnostic John the Baptizer: Selections from t...

5) How could Ali and then Hussein have engaged in a "war" with the Damascus Islamic caliphate in Kufa, Iraq which is so far away from Damascus? Both the Ali myth and the Muhammad myth are versions of the Jesus myth. Mesopotamia was part of the Greater Syria cultural region. The Alidites a...

Peter Kirby wrote:

DuvDuv wrote:4) Why are so many figures associated with Muhammad never mentioned in the Quran, i.e. Ali??

Muhammad isn't mentioned either. The word "muhammad" appears about four times and does not refer to Muhammad.

Peter Kirby wrote:

DuvDuv wrote:4) Why are so many figures associated with Muhammad never mentioned in the Quran, i.e. Ali??

Muhammad isn't mentioned either. The word "muhammad" appears only about four times and does not refer to Muhammad.