TY - JOUR
AU - Kahl, Oliver
AB -  REVIEWS derive from Muslim converts as much as older sources which may introduce difference of perspective or, if based on hearsay, need not derive even `ultimately' from Muslim sources at all. The last chapter is by Andrew Rippin on `Muhammad in the Qur'an: reading scripture in the twenty-first century'. Briefly surveying the evidence of the `addressee' of the Qur'an he concludes that the text is far too opaque to be a source for the life of the Prophet. A problem remains as to how, in the light of other material, it came to be read by Muslims in a historical manner. And if we choose to read it in a different (postmodern) manner, the answer as to what the Qur'an refers would be found in an `element common to the Near Eastern monotheistic religious milieu' (p. 308) rather than the specific historical period within Arabia. How this broader framework could be determined any more easily than the Arabian background or why the historical reference point of the Qur'an could not embrace both are questions left unaddressed. This is an important book and deserves careful reading and assessment by scholars of early Islam whether of the sceptical or more 
TI - Qustā ibn Lūqā on Numbness: A Book on Numbness, its Kinds, Causes and Treatment according to the opinion of Galen and Hippocrates
JF - Journal of Semitic Studies
DO - 10.1093/jss/47.1.163
DA - 2002-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/qust-ibn-l-q-on-numbness-a-book-on-numbness-its-kinds-causes-and-xQUAF9Kr3F
SP - 163
EP - 164
VL - 47
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -