The "Late Antique Qur'an" | Angelika Neuwirth

[@johnleake5657]

It's lovely - and so sad - to see Patricia Crone introducing Angelika Neuwirth, given her sad demise from cancer. I sadly only met her once, but she is missed.

[@johnleake5657]

(The video was made two years before Patricia Crone's cancer diagnosis which was to kill her in 2015)

[@johnleake5657]

Professor Neuwirth's work is amazing - If you're a scholar, I recommend her Der Koran als Texte der Spätantike: ein europäischer Zugang / The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage

[@bhinnekabhinneka6678]

@@johnleake5657 I found this is an overwhelmingly impressive work of Prof. Neuwirth; she connects the verses of the Quran so that they can have historical interpretation. I am specifically interested in her explanation of Sura 112 which, according to her, is "a reverse echo" of the Nicean creed. Do you have any idea of who the Quranic community was?

[@Heshem_Joel]

Thank you for the comprehensible delivery.

[@voiceforjusticeandproporti5543]

Angelika, I appreciate the sincerity of your approach. As you rightly pointed out, western scholarship and eastern scholarship has been disconnected. As a muslim I appreciate your effort to bring in eastern scholarship into relevance in western studies.

[@rehanamughni4984]

I congra all those who at least initiated a critical debat on Quran hope it'll enhance the understanding about the holybook

[@stickboy11]

The recitation of Surah Ar Rahman at 37:00 is very beautiful. I believe it is the voice of Kuwaiti Qari Mishary bin Rashid Al-Afasy.

[@abukareem6511]

Rahman only belongs to Allah. Raheem can be used on a human. I could save a cat and you may call me a raheem (merciful and compassionate). But you cant call me rahman. Only Allah is the rahman. Rahman is like saying he's the source of ultra mercifulness and compassion.

[@TheHaustek]

I highly respect her view on the human's heritage aspect.

[@newdawn2362]

Her choice of the Qur'an reciter was well chosen

[@samsmith6279]

How do you guys not understand her? Pretty clear to me

[@CanaaniteRanger]

With all respect Dr. ... "Borrowed" is a bold claim .. any honest academic research would show clearly that borrowing was not possible .. as well as that the Quran has corrected information presented in the Torah and Bible ..

[@bhinnekabhinneka6678]

41:20 did allah read the Nicean creed? :D

[@ayhemshaban9745]

@@bhinnekabhinneka6678 what does quran 41:20 have to do with the nicean creed?

[@deddy9675]

@@ayhemshaban9745 well, you should ask Prof. Angelika. Haven't you watched the lecture?

[@aaronpaterson1615]

I meet a lot of people with strong accents in Australia, I could understand this lady 98%

[@VictoriaSethunya]

I understand the accent. What an exploration.... this presentation affirmed my suspicion that the inherently multidimensional exegesis of the Qur’an is unlikely to hold as global the interpretations of the texts I could’ve interpret in isolation from their multifaceted meaning. Thank you for the brilliant delivery!

[@carlosrios3215]

God bless her hair do

[@michaels4255]

I had no problem understanding Prof. Neuwirth's accent, but she does remind me of actress Madeleine Khan exclaiming in a faux German accent, "It's twoo, it's twoo!" in Mel Brooks' film "Blazing Saddles." kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGbbkIimYp6Xl5I&pp=gAQBiAQB

[@stevenv6463]

Interesting lecture

[@SomfilmsFHD]

i understood clearly

[@ideasandwich3975]

I'd like a transcript of the talk, in both English and German.

[@aarifboy]

This was very heavy, but it was a new way to look at things to me for sure

[@sallehandrews6976]

Ebody talks abt her strong accent whch made her research difficult to understand. It is not her accent but yr lack of understanding and backgrnd of the subject. Remember tt Einstein's accent ws no better

[@yasilasheraz3216]

Brilliant..

[@SouthGallaecian]

I, also, have some trouble understanding her. This is not an insult, merely a factual statement.

[@NathanKwadade]

@rui Afonso it's probably from your ears. She's perfectly clear

[@carlosrios3215]

You seem to be in the minority of “facts.”

[@ebarraganm]

I agree; very clearly...!!

[@TheUnique69able]

Amazing women and is an asset to Germany and the world

[@t.0fu.]

wish the closed captions actually helped...

[@AMA-Online]

What kind of English do you speak if you can't understand this?! 🤔

[@theperfectionist]

Clearly understood indeed.

[@khairudinismail2939]

So that Karen Armstrong...

[@andanandan6061]

This is supposed to be study about Quran but comment section study much her accent. 😁

[@Abeer-Essa]

The introduction of moderator of the session is full of misinformation unfortunately.

[@sejadtahan]

I am having difficulty understanding her due to the strong accent.

[@zipodipo7923]

She's using discipline specific language. What helped me to understand her was a thing called the english oxford dictionary. Heard of it ? It's available on line. Every now and then you have to pause the video to look up the meaning of a word, which can be frustrating, but it's actually rewarding to add a few words to your repertoire and sound like you know something when you open up your gob.

[@skipinkoreaable]

Her speech has a few unique elements characteristic of a native German speaker (certain vowels have their own characteristics, she has an unusual 'v' sound etc), but she is very consistent and the rhythm and vowel reduction is very natural. I'm not qualified to comment about the actual content of the talk, but I feel she is actually a very eloquent, learned speaker and uses very well thought out, logical sentences. If you're capable of understanding this type of academic language as spoken by a native speaker, I believe you will be able to understand her if you listen for a while and get used to her way of speaking. If you're not capable of understanding this type of talk as spoken by native speakers, it could also be because she uses a very academic type of language that is different from everyday spoken language. Personally I feel that she's talking about a difficult topic in an academic way but is overall a very clear and eloquent speaker.

[@NathanKwadade]

You are having difficulty because you need to clean your ears. She's very clear in her dissemination.

[@indialover83]

She's a good researcher, not a great speaker though.

[@carlosrios3215]

Her pacing was all over the place.

[@Abeer-Essa]

Totally confused study