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 29 [2003]: 377-80); the remarks in A. Neuwirth, “Qur’an and History – a Disputed Relationship: Some Reflections on Qur’anic History and History in the Qur’an”, Journal of Qur’anic Studies 5 (2003): 8-10; and Saleh, “The Etymological Fallacy and Qur’anic Studies”, 670-94. Highly critical, though open to some of the suggestions are F. Corriente (Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 1 [2003]: 305-14); D. Stewart, “Notes on Medieval and Modern Emendations of the Qur’ān”, in QHC, 225- 48; and D. King, “A Christian Qur’ān? A Study in the Syriac Background to the Language of the Qur’ān as Presented in the Work of Christoph Luxenberg”, Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture 3 (2009): 44-75, where many of the earlier reviews are briefly summarized.