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Ua3/9/5 Islamic Center Of Bowling Green Open House, Wku President's Office May 2005

Ua3/9/5 Islamic Center Of Bowling Green Open House, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell at the Islamic Center of Bowling Green open house. He discusses the internationalization of Bowling Green.


Collection & Transmission Of The Qur'an: A Critical Survey Of Western Scholarship, David Addleton Nov 1982

Collection & Transmission Of The Qur'an: A Critical Survey Of Western Scholarship, David Addleton

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A brief review of the history of western interest in the Qur'an from Keaton's 1143 C.E. translation to the present and a comparison between the western and traditional views on the Qur'-am's textual history serves to place the western theories on the collection and transmission of the Qur'an in their historical and intellectual context.

The theories of Richard Bell, John Burton, Leone Caetani, Paul Casanova, Arthur Jeffery Alphonse Mingana, Theodor Ntildeke, John Wansbrough and W. Montgomery Watt are given primary consideration; Nabia Abbot, Hartwig Hirschfeld, D.S. Margolicuth, William Muir and Ajmal Khan receive secondary consideration.

The traditional history of the …