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This is good stuff but I'm not really surprised at the poor response - what can one add? However, here's an idea. A lot hinges on the meaning of the mediaeval Arabic. Which has been absorbed into modern Arabic under a series of Muslim empires. It would make sense if ancient words suggesting nasty koranic things had taken on alternative, benign, meanings down the centuries. I'm not suggesting that scholars of mediaeval Arabic have fallen for this, but they're probably quite thinly spread among the billions of Muslims. A majority of whom probably can't understand Arabic anyway.
Thanks Kanchan,
keep up your research!