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Category Archives: Book Review
A Latent Crisis
Most of early Meccan surahs are found on the final pages of the Qur’an. They are likely to be missed by Western readers who are only superficially interested in the Muslims’ Holy Book; altogether impossible to properly perceive. Most of … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review
Tagged Angelika Neuwirth, Corpus Coranicum, early Meccan surahs, Navid Kermani, Nicolai Sinai, Qur'an, Tilman Nagel
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A Culture of Ambiguity
It is a daring hypothesis which is outlined in this year’s second eye-opener by Verlag der Weltreligionen (after Angelika Neuwirth’s tour de force of a European approach to the Qur’an; see my review here), Thomas Bauer’s Other History of Islam. … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Islam
Tagged ambiguity, culture, intolerance, Islamicized Islam, Thomas Bauer, tolerance
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A Rhetorical Triumph
Angelika Neuwirth has presented a monumental analysis of the Holy Qur’an [1] which provides a number of convincing arguments that the scripture must not be regarded as fait accompli but had rather developed as a liturgical text during permanent and critical, … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Book Review, Islam
Tagged Ahmad Milad Karimi, Angelika Neuwirth, Christianity, congregation, Corpus Coranicum, Europe, Hartmut Bobzin, Holy Bible, Holy Qur'an, Judaism, Karl-Heinz Ohlig, Koran, Madinah, Makkha, Markus Gross, Muhammad, Navid Kermani, Tanakh, Tilman Nagel
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Rather Reading Reviews (on Decision Points)
Well, I’m glad that I resisted (yet). True, reading Decision Points by George W. Bush might have been a revelation on how the former number one world politician did and still does lie. Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder had already rebutted … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan war, Bill Clinton, Decision Points, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Eliot Weinberger, George W. Bush, Iraq war, memoir, NIE
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