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Qur’anic Preservation (a thread)
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…
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Consonantal Dotting and the Oral Quran (Sidky)
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…
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Does the Qu’ran date to the time of Uthman? (van Putten)
Introduction With the discovery and description of many early Quranic manuscripts that are clearly earlier than the late date proposed by Wansbrough, it is now clear that this position in its most extreme form is to be discarded. This paper aims to show not only that all the early Quran manuscripts descend from a single…
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Did al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf canonise the Qu’ran? (Joshua Little)
Short answer: no. This was argued by Shoemaker and Little goes over it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN8TUNGq8zQ The Quran was likely canonized before 656 CE, as evidenced by the consensus in reports of pre-canonization, lack of post-fitna anachronisms, and the shared text among conflicting sects. The Quran was canonized by the state in the early 700s, with variations…
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Evidence of the Earliness of the Qu’ran (Nicolai Sinai)
(2) Text-critical arguments (3) Internal features of the Quran (i): lack of fit with post-650 Islamic (4) Internal features of the Quran (ii): absence of narrative framing (5) Internal features of the Quran (iii): lack of linguistic normalization There are good reasons to believe that the arrangment of verses in most suras go back to…
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Evidence of the Earliness of the Qu’ran (Fred Donner)
Wansbrough’s work contains many cogent observations about the Qur’anic text, but many of his arguments can be challenged. Even if one concurs with Wansbrough’s specific conclusion on this point, it remains possible that the development he posits could have taken place within thirty years, rather than two hundred. Another objection that has been raised to…
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Evidence of the Earliness of the Qu’ran (Estelle Whelan)
More: Conclusion:
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Does the Qu’ran date to the time of Uthman? (Marx & Jocham)
Michael J. Marx and Tobias Jocham, “Zu den Datierungen von Koranhandschriften durch die 14C-Methode,” Frankfurter Zeitschrift für islamisch-theologische Studien 2 (2015): 9–43. According to 14C measurements, the four Qurʾān fragments University Library Tübingen Ma VI 165, Berlin State Library We. II 1913 and ms. or. fol. 4313, and University Library Leiden Cod. or. 14.545b/c are…
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Does the Qu’ran date to the time of Uthman? (Sadeghi & Goudarzi)
Some ancient reports and modern scholars assign this event to the reign of the third caliph and link it with his standardizing the text of the Qur’ān around AD 650. However, the analysis shows that the sūras were formed earlier. There is the traditional account that is associated with most premodern scholars. They held that…
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Collection of the Qu’ran (Harald Motzki)
All 51 transmission lines of traditions that report the compilation of the Qur’an under Abu Bakr or Uthman, found in 12 sources before 930 CE, intersect in a single transmitter: Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri (677-742 CE). Source: Harald Motzki, “The Collection of the Qur’ān. A Reconsideration of Western Views in Light of Recent Methodological Developments,” Der…