More proposed emendations to the text of the Koran. From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: April 1, 1996| Author: Bellamy, James A. | COPYRIGHT 1996 American Oriental Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In this article nine difficult words and phrases in the Koran which have not been satisfactorily elucidated by Muslim commentators or Orientalists are explained as copyists' errors in the Koranic text or in the sources from which parts of the Koran were drawn. Emendations of the text are proposed.

For Franz Rosenthal, the first recipient of the American Oriental Society Medal of Merit, awarded at Madison, Wisconsin, on March 22, 1994.

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