An archive of ancient Islamic manuscripts thought destroyed by British bombing in 1944 has resurfaced, and scholars suspect it will confirm evidence unearthed 25 years ago in Yemen that the Koran circulated in several versions. It's dizzying stuff: crafty academics, ancient relics, religious leaders and Nazis. It also poses existential questions for Islam.
excerpt; What if scholars can prove beyond reasonable doubt that the Koran was not dictated by the Archangel Gabriel to the Prophet Mohammad during the 7th century, but rather was redacted by later writers drawing on a variety of extant Christian and Jewish sources? That would be the precise equivalent of proving that the Jesus Christ of the Gospels really was a composite of several individuals, some of whom lived a century or two apart.
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excerpt; What if scholars can prove beyond reasonable doubt that the Koran was not dictated by the Archangel Gabriel to the Prophet Mohammad during the 7th century, but rather was redacted by later writers drawing on a variety of extant Christian and Jewish sources? That would be the precise equivalent of proving that the Jesus Christ of the Gospels really was a composite of several individuals, some of whom lived a century or two apart.
The constructed Koran
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