Critique of Christian Origins: A Parallel English-Arabic Text (Brigham Young University - Islamic Translation Series) Review

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Critique of Christian Origins: A Parallel English-Arabic Text (Brigham Young University - Islamic Translation Series) ReviewThe previous reviewer "A. Nor" misses the point about the translator's note on Q 9:31 (and misses the point on vowels in the Quran generally). The consonantal text (the basic skeleton) of the Quran is consistent in the manuscripts, but the oldest manuscripts were written without vowels and later muslims did *not* agree on how the text is to be pronounced. This is why a science of "readings" exists (and why some muslims like ibn mujahid in the 10th century argued that there are 7 ways of reading the quran, others 10, others 14, and some that there are two "ways" of reading each of these readings), and this is why the Egyptian ministry of education had to come up with a standard quran in 1924 for its schools -- which is the Arabic text read today worldwide.
Anyway, the translator is certainly right to ask whether Q 9:31 was originally pronounced with Christ in the genitive (since it comes after "God," also in the genitive). It's not clear that the translator means to say that the quran thereby supports the divinity of Christ - it could be that the quran is saying that "despite their claims" of whom they worship the Christians (and Jews) also worship their clergy. Thus on 9:31 the translator makes a good scholarly point.
Generally the translation is a rich source of information. The work translated, by the late 10th century Mutazilite 'Abd al-Jabbar, is a remarkable effort of a medieval Muslim to show that Christianity really is a "falsified" religion, that Christian claims of miracles are false, and that the Bible is (at once) false and actually supports Islamic claims ('Abd al-Jabbar is not very coherent on this point). The section on the crucifixion -- and, actually the sections on the life of Paul and Constantine - are remarkable for 'Abd al-Jabbar's unique approach.
The word of the editor and the translator is excellent. The text is fully vocalized, which will help those who are learning Arabic read the text, and the translation is accompanied by numerous and helpful notes. It would have been nice if they included more citations of the passages from the Quran and Bible in the notes but this is a small point.
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