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Some thoughts - A Reader

- Some thoughts

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A Reader

2009 / 4 / 18 - 04:06
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According to Luxenberg’s thesis, the Syrian proselytizers of the seventh century ventured into Arabia, mixed with Bedouins, and left a body of sermons, teachings and writings, that was an amalgamation of their Aramaic tongue (lingua franca of the area at the time,) and the different local Arabic dialects; this medley-the Quran-must have been understood by the indigenous people for whom it was intended, otherwise it looses its intrinsic purpose. The question becomes: why did the locals’ nascent Arabic language evolve along a different trajectory, and became unintelligible to the point that after few decades, the Quranic text seemed rife with alien expressions that required much strained interpretation? Put another way, why doesn’t the science of linguistics show the stepwise evolution from the prototypical language of the Quran-with its Aramaic origin-into the latter documented Fusha Arabic? Also, what role does Muhammad as a figure play into all of this? Was he one of the Syrian proselytizers, a latter-day compiler of their work, or an altogether fictitious personality? And finally,

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