Quran 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.This bookaddresses in a critical fashion the hottest issues in recent works on the Quran. Among other things, the contributors analyze the controversial theories of Luxenberg regarding Syriac and the Quran, and in particular his argument that the term Hur refers not to virgins but to grapes.Reynolds, Gabriel Said is the author of 'Quran in Its Historical Context ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415428996 and ISBN 0415428998.