Karl-Heinz Ohlig
Karl-Heinz Ohlig ( Born 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 600s CE, with the letters MHMT and the term Muhammad 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...")[1]
Written works
- Fundamental Christianity: In the tension of Christianity and Culture Kosel, 1986
- Religion in the History of Mankind: The Development of Religious Consciousness, 2002
- One Or Three: From The Father Of Jesus To The Trinity, Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, 1999 ISBN 378672167X (German); Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2003 ISBN 3631503377 (English)
- The Hidden Origins of Islam: New Research Into Its Early History, Hans Schiller Verlag, 2005 ISBN 3899301285 (German); Prometheus Books, 2008 ISBN 1591026342 (English)
- (ed), Der frühe Islam: eine historisch-kritische Rekonstruktion anhand zeitgenössischer Quellen, Hans Schiller Verlag, 2008 ISBN 3899300904 (German)
See also
Notes and references
References
- ^ Muhammad as a Christological Honorific Title 2008 interview http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-756/i.html
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German catholic theologian |
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1938 |
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Koblenz, Germany |
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