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What the Koran Really Says by Ibn Warraq

msgtdameron's review

challenging sad slow-paced

0.5

This work is a hatchet job on Islam and the Quran.  To start the word "jahna".  This work says multiple times that there is no Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, or any other language that the authors have found for "jahnas'" root language and should be dropped.  I am no Theologian but I am looking for peace of mind in my PTS brain.  And jahna comes from the Hindu and means level or place in the garden, rough translation.  Mecca was a trade city and Muhammad would have been familiar with Hindu.  One of the works I read described the pre-Islamic Kaaba as a shrine to all the desert and trader gods including a shrine to Mary and Christ, various desert gods and several Eastern gods, Buddha.  A little more scholarly work needed to be done.  Other articles say there is NO good Arabic or Mid-Eastern Scholarly criticism or work on the Quran.  But. a few articles later the editor uses articles by those who dispute or agree with the Arab scholarly work.  Having cake and eating also?  There are more than 100 pages on the word "An Yadin".  With eight different explanations as to why the writers used this word and five different Arab translations.  Ending with A.F Wrights studies in Chinese Buddhism where Schub simply substituted Jewish of Buddhist and  and Islam for Chinese.  AT best this is lazy at worst plagiarism, but the article that uses this laziness is included.  These are some of the more egregious problems with this work.  If you read this you will find more.  Maybe this can be a new game how many errors or issues can one find in this work(?).