ANCIENT QUR’ANIC MANUSCRIPTS
OF SANA’A AND DIVINE DOWNFALL
By, Sujit Das
“Respect for the faith of sincere believers cannot be allowed either to block or deflect
the investigation of the historians .
.
.
One must defend the rights of elementary
historical...
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ANCIENT QUR’ANIC MANUSCRIPTS
OF SANA’A AND DIVINE DOWNFALL
By, Sujit Das
“Respect for the faith of sincere believers cannot be allowed either to block or deflect
the investigation of the historians .
.
.
One must defend the rights of elementary
historical methodology”.
------- Maxime Rodhinson, 1981; p.
57
(Photo Source: Wikipedia, 2009)
Gerd R Puin’s photo of one Sana a Qur an
parchment, showing layered revisions to the Qur’an
Muslims often say that both Old Testament and New Testament are corrupted and seriously changed.
They say, for a Holy Scripture to be authoritative, it has to be preserved without any changes at all,
and point to their Qur’an, which claims to have been revealed word by word and letter by letter to
Muhammad by Allah.
Qur’an claims, ‘no change there can be in the words of God’ (10:64) and,
‘there is none that can alter the words (and decrees) of God’ (6:34).
But then how ridiculous the ‘doctrine of abrogation’ is, by which later revelations cancel previous
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