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RIYADH: The death toll from this year's Haj has exceeded 1,000, an AFP tally said Thursday (Jun 18), more than half of whom were unregistered worshippers performing the pilgrimage in extreme heat in Sa

In this video I give a short presentation on different proposals for a Syriac background for a number of Qur'anic stories. I look at the influence that the Syriac Alexander Legend, the Sleepers of Ephesus, as well as other Syriac literature have had on the Qur'an. I also evaluate some of the more controversial proposals for Syriac subtext like that of Christoph Luxenberg who argued that much of the Qur'an can be read as a Syriac text.