audiobook Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity by From Routledge in History

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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 an original manner; combining thorough philology; historical anthropology; and cultural history. This book addresses 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.