https://www.academia.edu/12304787/Late_Antique_Apocalyptic_a_Context_for_the_Qur_an Eschatological thinking had been part of Christian and Jewish assumptions from an early stage, and early Christians lived in expectation of an imminent end. When this did not happen, various adjustments had had to be made, and this still continued in late antiquity in many different spheres14 – certainly not without being contested and…

Article The textual eatures of Siras 10-15 are our irst indication that we are dealing here with a grouping that goes beyond the coincidental. The irst is their similar 1mulaic opening. The six suras all start with the mysterious letter sequence, alif lim ri’ (with the exception of Sira 13, which has one additional letter…

According to the Quran, no. (edit: my bad guys, Study Qu’ran = heretic/bad, but ay, i didn’t say i agree with the whole book did i?) (edited) Q79 – It is unclear whether the audience addressed Muhammad because they doubt that the Hour [15] will ever come to pass—as the associators and disbelievers typically do—or…

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Nicolai Sinai (The eschatological Kerygma of the early Qur’an, p. 236), for example, interprets the eschatology of the Qur’an as a means to motivate its audience to do good and be obedient to God: As underlined by Andrae, the early Qur’an’s evocations and portrayals of the end of the world and the hereafter primarily serve…

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https://www.academia.edu/36831359/_An_Arabian_Qurān_Dissertation_Defense_Draft_2016_ This 2021 paper in JIQSA by Saqib Hussain shows that that Arabian Safaitic inscriptions represent the background of “the star” from Q 53:1. https://lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/jiqsa/article/view/553 For scathing reviews see those of F. De Blois (Journal of Qur’anic Studies 5 [2003]: 92-97: “His book is not a work of scholarship but of dilettantism”); S. Hopkins (JSAI…

The problem with many of Luxenberg’s supposed Syriacisms is that many are well within the normal range of attested grammatical possibilities within Arabic itself. Luxenberg identifies as the basis for the theories he proposes the idea that the language in which the Qur’an was recorded was a mixed language, an Arabic/Aramaic creole of sorts, spoken…