Tulayhah https://www.academia.edu/42629171/A_Revised_Inner-Qurʾanic_Chronology_Based_on_Mean_Verse_Lengths_and_the_Medina_I_Counting_System

There is an unnecessary trend to downplay the role of Muhammad in preaching the Qu’ran, so much so they he’s a legendary figure. The premise of this article is that there is a lot of information about Muḥammad in the Qur’an: namely that which the Qur’an considered important and wanted to make known about him.…

Juan Coles states: Personally, I think it all came through Muhammad. Stylometric studies (Sadeghi) https://www.academia.edu/2572358/The_Chronology_of_the_Qur_ān_A_Stylometric_Research_Program do not find evidence of multiple authorship and I don’t see evidence of it myself. Compare the Hebrew Bible where the terms themselves demonstrate multiple authors. Likewise the epistles attributed to Paul. I do not believe that the Qur’an, which…

Article Many letters are not distinguished clearly without these dots, e.g., bāʾ, tāʾ and thāʾ are all spelled with the same letter shape ٮ, and can only be distinguished through a system of dots: ب for bāʾ, ت for tāʾ and ث for thāʾ. This bare consonantal skeleton is typically known as the rasm, “tracing.”…

See Hythem Sidky’s review below: https://www.academia.edu/40931921/Daniel_Alan_Brubaker_Corrections_in_Early_Qurʾānic_Manuscripts_Twenty_Examples_Lovettsville_Think_and_Tell_Press_2019_ Basically, the corrections mostly concern scribal errors. In some cases, the text that was written by the original scribe is ungrammatical or doesn’t make any sense. For each example, if you look at earlier and contemporary manuscripts, you’ll always find the text that we have today. So the best…

Article In studies of early Qurʾānic manuscripts, determining the provenance of these manuscripts is a thorny issue because in most cases they lack endowment notes or colophons. The reports in early Islamic sources regarding textual variants of regional codices (maṣāḥif al-amṣār) may contribute to find a solution to this problem. A list of regional variants,…

Certain outliers were noticed and discarded (Sanaa Unified Kiel is too early, Sanaa fol11 too late). The remaining samples are treated as if they are all elements of one archeological phase, and modelled in Oxford’s Oxcal 4.4 model software. Resulting dating calculations are the following: Thus we can conclude that there is an 85% probability…

The mushafs, dated to the 1st century Hijri (622-722 AD), authenticate approximately 97% of the text of the Quran. In other words, 97% of the Quran text (6059 out of 6236 verses) can be written just by looking at the mushafs dated between these years. As van Putten states, yeah, the polemics that the Qu’ran…

He argues rasms aren’t just being determined based on desires/opinions. There was infact distinct traditions in each region. He does this by comparing all the places where the ten canonical readers disagree on consonantal dotting. That is: if you were to write it out in a fully dotted Arabic script, the words would only be…