Luxenberg finds the original Aramaic Qur'an in 7 steps!

Thomas Alexander does an amazing job of describing and explaining the ground-breaking work of Chistoph Luxenberg's research on the Qur'an's origins, particularly its Syro-Aramaic origins. According to Alexander, Luxenberg went to the "dark passages" in the Qur'an to find what they really meant. These are the 25% of the Qur'an which even today Muslim scholars cannot understand, and are simply a mystery. So, Luxenberg decided to apply a textual analysis to these passages to find what they may have meant originally in another language, namely, the Syro-Aramaic, used by the Christians in the earlier centuries to write their religious texts. In order to apply a true textual analysis, he went to each of those passages and applied a 7-step process: 1) Check with the al Tabari's 10th century Tafsir (commentary) to find an Arabic meaning for the word. 2) Check in the Lisān al-ʿArab 3) Check if there’s a homonymous root in Aramaic with a different meaning 4) Try different diacritics 5) Check for an Aramaic root using different diacritics 6) Try to re-translate the presumably Arabic word back into Aramaic by inferring the semantics of the Syro-Aramaic word 7) Try to find lost meanings of Arab words by looking at 10th century Syro-Aramaic lexicons © Pfander Centre for Apologetics - US, 2021 (57,600) Music: "Travels" by Aleksound, from filmmusic-io