Tag: Christoph Luxenberg

  • Lux­en­berg On Houris

    If the Qur’an­ic vers­es men­tion­ing houris are care­ful­ly placed and crit­i­cal­ly stud­ied in the order of their rev­e­la­tion, then the fol­low­ing pic­ture emerges — the tran­si­tion from the more sen­su­al to the more spir­i­tu­al — be espe­cial­ly noteworthy : Makkan Peri­od First Makkan Period (i.e., from the first to the fifth year of the Prophet’s Mis­sion, 612 – 17 CE) (clas­si­fi­ca­tion after…