Early Islam
a critical reconstruction based on contemporary sources
$87.70
- Hardcover
647 pages
- Release Date
18 November 2013
Summary
Unveiling Early Islam: A New Perspective on Its Origins
This successor volume to The Hidden Origins of Islam (edited by Karl-Heinz Ohlig and Gerd-R. Puin) continues the pioneering research begun in the first volume into the earliest development of Islam.
Using coins, commemorative building inscriptions, and a rigorous linguistic analysis of the Koran along with Persian and Christian literature from the seventh and eighth centuries–when Islam was in its formative sta…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781616148256 |
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| ISBN-10: | 161614825X |
| Author: | Karl-Heinz Ohlig |
| Publisher: | Prometheus Books |
| Imprint: | Prometheus Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 647 |
| Release Date: | 18 November 2013 |
| Weight: | 1.05kg |
| Dimensions: | 227mm x 164mm x 42mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
”“Despite its scholarly presentation…the explosive nature of its contents is unmistakable: the term ‘Muhammad’ originally referred to Jesus; early Islam was a variant of Christianity; the ‘Ur-Koran’ was a Christian book in the Syro-Aramaic language.”–Die Presse (Vienna, Austria)
About The Author
Karl-Heinz Ohlig
Karl-Heinz Ohlig (Saarbrücken, Germany) is professor emeritus of Religious Studies and the History of Christianity at the University of the Saarland, chairman of the Inarah Institute for Research into the Early History of Islam and the Koran, and the author of many books including Weltreligion Islam- Eine Einführung (Islam as World Religion- An Introduction). He is the editor (with Gerd-R. Puin) of The Hidden Origins of Islam.
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