Koranic Allusions: The Biblical, Qumranian, and Pre-Islamic Background to the Koran

The author of Why I Am Not a Muslim presents an erudite anthology of scholarly articles that examine the connections between pre-Islamic poetry and the text of the Koran as well as similarities between the various Muslim doctrines and the writings of the Ebonites to reveal how the Koran was influenced by Christian, Jewish and other pre-Islamic sources.