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The Study of the Qur’an by Angelika Neuwirth, “From the Bets of Theology to the Analysis of Discourse”, by Dr. Amer Zaid al-Waeli is a research masterpiece and a scientific tour worthy of those who are interested in serious studies some deep follow-up of their results. Undoubtedly, the ridding of the Qur’anic text of its sanctity was and still is a Western goal that Angelika Neuwirth has tried so hard to achieve with a secular Protestant background that has dominated the German mind since the beginnings of Western modernity. Dr. Al-Waeli reviews the research background along with its philological methodology, and highlighted what Neuwirth tried to disseminate as a result of her work in the Quranic Encyclopedia in the 1990s. It remains to add some useful observations in the approach of the text. First: Ms. Neuwirth’s methodology requires that she and her team be surrounded by the pre-lslamic literature, the pre-lslamic environment, and the sciences that were then valid to form a “literary” text of this degree of distinction and mastery. It is not enough to say that the Prophet knew the Torah and the Gospel because the Quranic cognitions are not all related to what the previous scriptures, and this is a condition that is not met by the conditions of her approach, especially that some of her references indicate that she looks at the era of the Prophet (pbuh) differently from what is passed down in the
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