What the Koran Really Says Quotes

“1. My contention is that "Surah" is an arabicized form of the Hebrew name 171'01 B' surah, that is, Gospel, given to the Christian Gospels during the early centuries of Christianity and adopted in the Qur'an for "revelation.”
― Ibn Warraq, What the Koran Really Says: Language, Text and Commentary

“Since nadhir is a verbal adjective/noun of the basic (I.) form nad-hara-and not the causative (IV.) form andhara-it should originally not have had the meaning "warner," but the same significance as registered
for the feminine form nadhira (which can also be understood as a nomen unitatis of the masculine noun): namely, "votive gift" or "sacrifice."
In the end we come to the original meaning of XXV. 1, namely,
Blessed be He, who sent down the redemption on His servant that he might be (or: become) a sacrifice for the worlds.
Now XXV.1 displays the central Christian teachings on Jesus Christ: "sent down" (John 1), "as votive sacrifice" (Eph. 5:1; Heb. 10:10-14) "for the redemption" (Eph. 1:7 and often) "of the world" (John 3:17 f.).”
― Ibn Warraq, What the Koran Really Says: Language, Text and Commentary

“Reading the Koran on its own terms, trying to interpret it without resorting to commentaries, is a difficult and questionable exercise because of the nature of the text-its allusive and referential style and its grammatical and logical discontinuities, as well as our lack of sure information about its origins and the circumstances of its composition. Often such a reading seems arbitrary and necessarily inconclusive.
G. R. Hawting”
― Ibn Warraq, What the Koran Really Says: Language, Text and Commentary