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This page is about the academic treatment of the Quran as a historical document. For criticisms made against the Quran as a source of reliable information or ethical guidance, see Criticism of the Quran.
[What to do? 21- march 2021 Below has become to much of a mess. plan now is to start by going directly to the article improving 1) the Early Quranic manuscripts 2) legends/stories
TO DO *WHEN COMPLETED *update, edit History_of_the_Quran#Origin_according_to_academic_historians
*READ and CHECK *read and add MUSLIM WORLD https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1478-1913.1993.tb03571.x
*check HCL databases for "The battle of the books, The business of marketing the Bible and the Koran says a lot about the state of modern Christianity and Islam
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBUhCG3Fbck What are the seven different readings (qira'at) of the Qur'an? Dr. Shabir Ally explains *trim out anti-Islamic parts
- TOOLS/REFERENCES
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Islam-related_articles
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Islam-related articles
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_Quran
- multiple Quranic translations: https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/2/219/default.htm
- 56:78 56:78 (Pickthall)
THEMES:
- investigating and verifying the Quran's origin, text, composition, history
- variations in text among different versions/manuscripts;
- the intended audience (such as whether the audience was assumed to be familiar with the Christian Bible);
- puzzles of unclear letters, words and phrases, unexplained by early exegetes;
- themes and stories found in other earlier texts[9] (such as narratives about Alexander the Great) and earlier religious works (especially the bible, apocryphal gospels and Jewish legends);[10]
- patterns and repetition of text suggesting oral transmission,