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 stages--five expert contributors attempt
a reconstruction of this critical time period.
Despite the scholarly nature of their work, the implications of
their discoveries are startling:
- Islam originally emerged as a sect of Christianity.
- Its central theological tenets were influenced by a pre-Nicean,
Syrian Christianity.
- Aramaic, the common language throughout the Near East for many
centuries and the language of Syrian Christianity, significantly
influenced the Arabic script and vocabulary used in the
Koran.
- Finally, it was not until the end of the eighth and ninth
centuries that Islam formed as a separate religion, and the Koran
underwent a period of historical development of at least 200
years.
Controversial and highly intriguing, this critical historical
analysis reveals the beginning of Islam in a completely new
light.
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