#5 Who was St Ephrem? His influence on the qur'an | Sidney H Griffiths' paper

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In a continuation of the series on Syriac and Ethiopic influences on the Qur'an, we begin to look at who St Ephrem was and the Syriac context in which the qur'an was written.
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0:15 The story of St Ephrem
8:45 Who is Sidney H Griffiths?
12:30 Islamic tradition says Muhammad used Syriac sources!
13:37 Digression - why did such a hadith get written?
17:00 Mingana
18:58 Christoph Luxenberg
20:40 the qur'an's eschatology

#islamicorigins #stephrem #sin

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