Jim Quilty (2003-07-13). "Giving the Koran a history". Daily Star. lebanonwire.com. Diarkibkan daripada yang asal pada 2007-05-20. Dicapai pada 2008-07-18.
Dalam kritikannya terhadap Luxenberg, Professor Walid Saleh indicates that "The etymology of a word is a poor indication of what it means in a new context." He refers to Paul V. Mankowski's Akkadian Loanwords in Biblical Hebrew (Winona Lakes: Eisenbrauns, 2000), 1-13 and quotes M O'Conor's article "The Arabic Loanwords in Nabatean Aramaic" JNES 45 (1986), 215: "[T]he fundamental difficulty of all intra-Semitic language study: there is a common stratus of vocabulary and grammatical structure which makes it impossible to assign many words and formants to a particular language. p. 55
Jim Quilty (2003-07-13). "Giving the Koran a history". Daily Star. lebanonwire.com. Diarkibkan daripada yang asal pada 2007-05-20. Dicapai pada 2008-07-18.
