❞ كتاب THE QUR 039 AN AND THE ORIENTALISTS: AN EXAMINATION OF THEIR MAIN THEORIES AND ASSUMPTIONS ❝ ⏤ Muhammad Mohar Ali_محمد مهار علي

The subject of the orientalists' views and assumptions about the Qur'an
especially attracted my attention during the early 1990s when I had been engaged
in writing the Strat al-Nabt and the Orientalists. 1 It soon became clear that the major
part of their assumptions and remarks about the Prophet are aimed directly or
indirectly against the Qur'an, which fact goes only to confirm the Qur'anic
statement at 6:33 (al-'An'am):



"So in fact they cry lies not to you [i. e., the Prophet]; but the transgressors do at
Allah's 'qyahs (revelations) hurl rejection."
Subsequently, early in 1999, my attention was drawn to an article written by
Toby Lester under caption "What is the Koran" and published in the January
1999 issue of the Atlantic Monthfy. It was a sort of heavyweight journalistic writing
publicising the views of Gerd-R Puin regarding the Qur'an based on his
examination of some Qur'anic manuscripts lately discovered at San'a', together
with the views of some other orientalists. I wrote a review of that article which
was published as a booklet under caption: The Qur'an and the Latest Orienta/is!
Assumptions.2 In the following year I presented a paper (in Arabic) on the
orientalists' assumptions about the Qur'an at a seminar on Qur'anic studies and
sciences, organised by the ·King Fahd Qur'an Printing Complex and held at
Madina between 30 September and 3 October 2000.3 A revised English version
of this paper was published in 2002 as another booklet under caption :The Qur'an
and the Orientalists: A Brief Suroey of Their Assumptions.4 In the preface to this latter
booklet I mentioned that the subject needed a more detailed treatment. The
present work is an attempt in this direction.
Muhammad Mohar Ali_محمد مهار علي - ❰ له مجموعة من الإنجازات والمؤلفات أبرزها ❞ The Biography of the Prophet and the Orientalists ❝ ❞ THE QUR 039 AN AND THE ORIENTALISTS: AN EXAMINATION OF THEIR MAIN THEORIES AND ASSUMPTIONS ❝ ❱
من مقارنة الأديان فرق ومذاهب وأفكار وردود - مكتبة المكتبة التجريبية.