What the Koran really says: language, text, and commentary

2. What Is the Koran? / Toby Lester

Pt. 2. Background

2. Towards a Prehistory of Islam / Yehuda D. Nevo

Pt. 3. Question of Language

1. Syriac Influence on the Style of the Koran / Alphonse Mingana

2. Some Additions to Prof. Jeffery's Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an / D. S. Margoliouth

3. Arabic Readers of the Koran / Paul E. Kahle

4. Beginnings of Classical Arabic / C. Rabin

5. Role of the Bedouins as Arbiters in Linguistic Questions and the Mas'ala Az-Zunburiyya / Joshua Blau

6. Some Suggestions to Qur'an Translators / A. Ben-Shemesh

Pt. 4. Sources of the Koran: Essenian, Christian, Coptic

1. Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls / Ibn Warraq

2. Qumran Scrolls and the Qur'an / Eric R. Bishop

3. Essenian Tradition in the Koran / Marc Philonenko

4. Qumranian Expression in the Koran / Marc Philonenko

5. Possible Coptic Source of a Qur'anic Text / Wilson B. Bishai

6. Introduction to Raimund Kobert / Ibn Warraq

7. Shahadat az-zur: The False Witness / Raimund Kobert

8. On the Meaning of the Three Final Words of Sura XXII.30-31 / Raimund Kobert

9. Early and Later Exegesis of the Koran: A Supplement to Or 35 / Raimund Kobert

Pt. 5. Suras, Suras, Suras

1. Introduction to Sura IX.29 / Ibn Warraq

2. Some Minor Problems in the Qur'an / Franz Rosenthal

3. Koran IX.29 / Claude Cahen

4. Propos de Qur'an IX.29: Hatta Yu'tu L-Gizyata wa-hum Sagiruna / Meir M. Bravmann and Claude Cahen

5. Ancient Arab Background of the Koranic Concept al-Gizatu 'an Yadin / Meir M. Bravmann

6. "'An Yadin" (Qur'an IX.29): An Attempt at Interpretation / M. J. Kister

7. Koran and Tafsir: The Case of "an Yadin" / Uri Rubin

8. Koran XXV.1: Al-Furqan and the "Warner" / C. Heger

9. Buddha Comes to China / Michael Schub

10. Secret Identity of Dhu l-Kifl / Michael Schub

Pt. 6. Emendations, Interpolations

1. Studies Contributing to Criticism and Exegesis of the Koran / J. Barth

2. Qur'anic Interpolation / A. Fischer

3. Regarding Qur'an CI.6 / A. Fischer

4. Three Difficult Passages in the Koran / C. C. Torrey

5. Strange Reading in the Qur'an / C. C. Torrey

6. Some Proposed Emendations to the Text of the Koran / James A. Bellamy

Pt. 7. Richard Bell: Introduction and Commentary

1. Introduction to Richard Bell / Ibn Warraq

2. From Introduction to the Qur'an / Richard Bell

3. From A Commentary on the Qur'an / Richard Bell

Pt. 8. Poetry and the Koran

1. Strophic Structure of the Koran / Rudolf Geyer

2. On the Koran / Julius Wellhausen

3. On Pre-Islamic Christian Strophic Poetical Texts in the Koran: A Critical Look at the Work of Gunter Luling / Ibn Rawandi

Pt. 9. Manuscripts

1. Problem of Dating the Early Qur'ans / Adolf Grohmann

2. Observations on Early Qur'an Manuscripts in San'a' / Gerd-R. Puin

App. B. Converting Flugel Koranic Verse Numbers into Standard Egyptian

App. D. Genetic Relationship among Semitic Languages / Merritt Ruhlen

App. E. Semitic Languages Family Tree

App. F. Origin of the Alphabet / I. J. Gelb

App. G. Development of Aramaic Scripts

App. H. Comparative Table of Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic Scripts

App. I. Comparative Table of Nabataean and Arabic

App. J. Nabataean and Arabic Inscriptions

App. K. Arabic Alphabet

App. L. Dot or Two Can Make All the Difference

App. M. Arabia and the Near East.