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Zum Beispiel gab es unlängst eine recht amüsante Kontroverse über die Thesen eines deutschen Altorientalisten namens Christoph Luxenberg, der behauptet, viele Unklarheiten des Koran verschwänden, sobald man die Wörter nicht als arabische, sondern als altsyrische liest.
For example, there has been a recent, rather amusing controversy over the scholarly dicta of a German specialist in ancient Middle Eastern tongues, one Christoph Luxenberg, who maintains that many obscurities of the Qur'an disappear if the words are read not as Arabic but as Syriac homonyms.
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