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To What extent is Noldeke's chronology of the Qur'anic text still defensible?
Title: To What extent is Noldeke's chronology of the Qur'anic text still defensible?
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To What extent is Noldeke's chronology of the Qur'anic text still defensible?
Islam holds a unique claim in comparative religion that its sacred scripture, the Qur'an, is not the fallible work of men writing their personal accounts of a long dead teacher but the infallible dictated word of God. This essay will give an overview of modern scholars thoughts on the origin, collection and development of the text. We shall begin with Noldeke's account of the chronology of the text and move to look at Bell's and …showed first 75 words of 1814 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1814 total…to suppress previous editions, and that the discovery may have been of these texts. However, the future of Qur'anic study will most probably have to increasingly to a historical chronological account if Islam is to maintain its unique claim within comparative religion.
Bibliography Watt and Bell Introduction to the Qur'an Rippen in Martin Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies.
Mir Coherence in the Qur'an Robinson Discovering the Qur'am www.theatlantic.com/issues/99jan/koran.htm
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