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Which Koran?
by Ibn Warraq
"It is an extraordinary thing that we still have no critical text of the Qur`an for common use'
--- Arthur Jeffery, 1937
There is no such thing as the Koran. There is not, and there never has been, a textus receptus ne varietur of the Holy Book of the Muslims. We have two kinds of evidence for this claim. One which comes from Muslims themselves. Many Classical Muslim scholars-Koranic commentators, collectors of hadith, lexica and Qirä’ät books, for example - have acknowledged not only that many verses revealed to Muhammad have been lost, and hence the Koran that we possess is incomplete, but also that the Koran assembled, whether by Abü Bakr, ‘Umar, ‘Alï or ‘Uthmän, is capable of being read in different ways, in other words that variants exist. There are a number of hadiths that recount “the loss, withdrawal, or forgetting of this or that ‘verse’ said to have been revealed to the Prophet but not figuring” in the Koran as it now exists. The other comes from extant Koranic manuscripts, inscriptions and coins. more...
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