Table of Contents
Foreword 7
Islam's "Hidden" Origins Karl-Heinz Ohlig
Part I The Early History of Islam
1 The Early History of Islam, Following Inscriptional and Numismatic Testimony Volker Popp 17
2 A New Interpretation of the Arabic Inscription in Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock Christoph Luxenberg 125
3 On the Origin of the Informants of the Prophet Claude Gilliot 153
4 'Abd al-Malik b. Marw?n and the Process of the Qur'?n's Composition Alfred-Louis de Pr?mare 189
Part II New Aspects for the Emergence and Characteristic of Islam
5 A Personal Look at Some Aspects of the History of Koranic Criticism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Ibn Warraq 225
6 Pre-Islamic Arabic-Koranic Arabic-Classical Arabic: A Continuum? Pierre Larcher 263
7 From Syriac to Pahlavi: The Contribution of the Sassanian Iraq to the Beginning of the Arabic Writing Sergio Noja Noseda 283
8 Early Evidences of Variant Readings in Qur'?nic Manuscripts Alba Fedeli 311
9 Leuke Kome = Laykah, the Arsians = 'A&sbdot;&hbdot;?b 'al-Rass, and Other Pre-Islamic Names in the Qur'?n: A Way Out of the "Tanglewood"? Gerd-R. Puin 335
10 Syrian and Arabian Christianity and the Qur'?n Karl-Heinz Ohlig 361
Contributors 403