Yehuda Nevo and Judith Koren, "Towards a Prehistory of Islam," Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 17 (1994), 108-41.
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Yehuda Nevo and Judith Koren, "Towards a Prehistory of Islam," Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 17 (1994), 108-41.
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The authors initially address the two paradigms for the rise of Islam. The authors believe the traditional approach "denies Islam a prehistory" and that the revisionist approach (based upon Wansbrough) views Islam as resulting from "some form of Judeo-Christianity" after the Arab conquests. Missing links to this theory may be provided in the form of Arabic rock inscriptions in addition to other known sources such as papyri, inscriptions on the Dome of the Rock and coins.
The authors conclude from evidence analyzed and linguistic studies of the Qur'an that a "Judeo-Christian sectarian environment was widespread, including at least one group defined by adherence to a prophet whose corpus of logia form the basis of the Qur'an." (126)And that canonization was reached late.