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an archive to yield a critical history and edition of the Qur’an? not with this attitude: “Please ensure that these scholars are not given further access to the documents…Allah, help us against our enemies.”
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on the Syro-Aramaic roots of the Qur’an; the Qur’an as a historically constituted text.
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Christopher Luxenberg, philology, and some misreadings of the Qur’an that uproot some of the fundamental tenets of Islam (what? no virgins?) — must point out this is a Catholic source, with all attendant “Koran-as-primitive-Bible” connotations.
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From Tunisia, a critical edition of the Qur’an in the making. And on airy dismissal of non-Muslim scholarship: “If you even talk about the [obvious] distinction between the mashaf (manuscripts) and the Koran, people will say ‘He is not a believer.’”
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full text in (mediocre) English translation
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ohmygod: an enormous horizontal map – an itinerarium – of the road network from Portugal to India as charted by the Romans. the original dates back to the fourth or fifth century. amazing, this impulse to map, and so to know, and conquer.
February 7, 2008
a historian's craft 
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