The 450 rolls of film had been assembled before the war for a bold venture: a study of the evolution of the Quran, the text Muslims view as the verbatim transcript of God's word. The wartime destruction made the project "outright impossible," Mr. Spitaler wrote in the 1970s. .Mr. Spitaler was lying. The cache of photos survived, and he was sitting on it all along. The truth is only now dribbling out to scholars -- and a Quran research project buried for more than 60 years has risen from the grave. "He pretended it disappeared. He wanted to be rid of it," says Angelika Neuwirth, a former pupil and protégée of the late Mr. Spitaler. Academics who worked with Mr. Spitaler, a powerful figure in postwar German scholarship who died in 2003, have been left guessing why he squirreled away the unusual trove for so long . . ."Unveil this documented history once and for ALL.
They show no doubt how the Quran was written and rewritten by many different people. And that the Quran was always just a political terrorist killing machine made into a “religion” by propaganda.
Very interesting! Thanks for the link!
I have heard that the older manuscripts have at their end Mohammed’s Jewish secretary’s monogram, a statement in Hebrew to the effect that “all you have read in this book is nonsense.” In later manuscrips, some enterprising scribe must have also learned Hebrew, and once he learned the monogram’s meaning, didn’t copy it.
From your link:
...”A scholar in northern Germany writes under the pseudonym of Christoph Luxenberg because, he says, his controversial views on the Quran risk provoking Muslims. He claims that chunks of it were written not in Arabic but in another ancient language, Syriac. [Emphasis mine-texokie:]THE ‘VIRGINS’ PROMISED BY THE QURAN TO ISLAMIC MARTYRS, HE ASSERTS, ARE IN FACT ONLY ‘GRAPES.’”
Also from the article:”Muslims, by contrast, view the Quran as the literal word of God. Questioning the Quran “is like telling a Christian that Jesus was gay,” says Abdou Filali-Ansary, a Moroccan scholar.”
Wait! they’ve done that!
THis is fascinating! German Arabic scholars after WWII seemed to all have strong ties to the NAZIs.
Who should be called on to unveil the documents?...and would they listen?