The QurÆan in its Historical Context

Providing commentary on the controversial revisionist school of Qur?anic studies, this book explores the origins, scholarship and development of the Qur'an. The collection of articles, each written by a distinguished author, treat very familiar passages of the Qur?an in a new and very original manner, combining thorough philology, historical anthropology, and cultural history. The main methodological issue examined in the manuscript is the Syriac Christian influence on the Qur'an, especially as typified by recent works by Luxenberg, currently the hottest issue in the study of early Islam.