This would change for the better if the holy book of Islam were no longer the literal word of God,
Why not? 1400 years of the building of the Islamic civilization then would be destroyed.
Maghraye, thanks for the PDF.
Mecca did not exist and is a later literary fiction
The Quran is a product of a written transmission and not an oral one
The genealogy of the Quran cannot be placed in today’s Mecca and Medina but somewhere further to the north
The Quran was redacted under the Umayyad Abd al-Malik
Abd al-Malik was not from Mecca but from Marv, hence his name, Abd al-Malik b. Marw-an
Islam (or the Quran) was composed somewhere around the Silk Road
The Abbasids are linked to the Umayyad’s
There were not conquests as recounted by the Arab sources
The hijrah as recounted by the Arab sources is fictional, and the actual hijrah marked the year the Byzantines vanquished the Sasanians at the hand of their Arab vassals, and hence, the year of the Arabs
The Quran was not written in Classical Arabic, but in a Aramaic-Arabic mixed-language
The Quran is a product of multiple authors
Much of the later narratives are literary fictions based on the Old Testament and all go back to a book by Ibn Abd al-Hakam
The Muslim pilgrimage and its rituals is based on Buddhist practices
Muhammad did not exist but was a another name for Jesus
The terms Islam and Muslims did not exist until the third century AH
Muawiya was a Christian king
The early Muslims were some kind of Arab Christians
These are some of the things I remember from the paper. Please read for additional information and any mistaken from my side.
1/Yes
2/Idem
3/not necessarily north.
4/not necessarily
5/ Possible
6/Idem
7/not conquests as recounted : there was war.Not necessarily "conquest".
8/The hijrah : nope.
9/The Quran was not written : nobody know what is Quranic Arabic
10/The Quran is a product of multiple authors : yes
11/Much of the later narratives are literary fictions : taken from the Quran
12/The Muslim pilgrimage : lulz
13/Muhammad did not exist but was a another name for Jesus : 1/ yes 2/ muhammad is an
adjective qualifying Jesus in the Dome's inscription. Not a proper name.
14/The terms Islam : yes
15/Muawiya was a Christian king : nope
16/The early Muslims were some kind of Arab Christians : nope
Topic: Qur'anic studies today