Die Koranhermeneutik von Gnter Lling

The present volume offers the first scholarly discussion of Gnter Llings (1928-2014) work. Llings views, long passages of the Qurn are originally mere reworking of pre-Islamic Christian hymns have not received the scholarly attention they deserve, since they were published at the beginning of the 70s of the previous century. Lling attempted to reconstruct an Ur-Qurn in order to show that Islam emerged in a Christian context in Mecca. He also believed that Muhammad converted from Trinitarian Christianity to paganism and that the Kaaba was a church. Llings hermeneutical approach to the Qurn and other Arabic sources on early Islam is, for the first time, the subject of the studies included in the present book. In addition, the volume offers interesting insights in the law case which accompanied the publication of Llings work.