Karl-Heinz Ohlig (born 15 September 1938 in
Koblenz) is a German professor of
Religious Studies and the History of Christianity at the
University of Saarland, Germany.
He is the co-editor with
Gerd Rudiger Puin of the book ''Die dunklen Anfänge. Neue Forschungen zur Entstehung und frühen Geschichte des Islam''
''The Hidden Origins of Islam: New Research Into Its Early History''" (Hans Schiller Verlag, 2005/Prometheus Books 2008) which argues that
Islam was not originally conceived as a distinct religion.
Ohlig and Puin's thesis propounds that according to the evidence of
Arab coinage, and the inscription in the
Dome of the Rock in the late 7th century, with the letters
MHMT and the term ''
Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mo ...
'' meaning "the revered" or "the praiseworthy" and the Dome's bearing Christian symbols such as crosses, it suggests that the term Muhammad was a Christian honorific title referring to Jesus, as in the hymn of the mass ("praise be to he that comes...")
With his approach of research Ohlig is a representative of the "Saarbrücken School" which is part of the
Revisionist School of Islamic Studies
The Revisionist school of Islamic studies, (also Historical-Critical school of Islamic studies and skeptic/revisionist Islamic historians) Hoyland, ''In God's Path'', 2015: p.232 is a movement in Islamic studies
that questions traditional Muslim ...
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Historicity of Muhammad
The historicity of Muhammad refers to the study of Muhammad as a historical figure and critical examination of sources upon which traditional accounts are based.
The earliest Muslim source of information for the life of Muhammad, the Quran, giv ...
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Christoph Luxenberg
''The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran: A Contribution to the Decoding of the Language of the Koran'' is an English-language edition (2007) of ''Die syro-aramäische Lesart des Koran: Ein Beitrag zur Entschlüsselung der Koransprache'' (2000) b ...
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Academic staff of Saarland University
20th-century German Catholic theologians
21st-century German Catholic theologians
1938 births
Living people
German male non-fiction writers