http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/scholars-split-by-claim-that-koran-scrap-rewrites-story-of-islam-10487474.html<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
For the record: I\u2019m strongly inclined to the more conservative view\u00a0of the significance of this fragment.<\/p>\n
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I can well imagine that it dates to soon after the making of the so-called \u201c\u2018Uthmanic rescension\u201d of the Qur\u2019an. \u00a0That would already be a remarkably valuable find.<\/p>\n
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I would be extremely surprised to learn that it dates to the lifetime of Muhammad himself \u2014 even though I\u2019m among those who think\u00a0(contrary to tradition) that he was probably literate and that the Qur\u2019an began to be written down early.<\/p>\n
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But it would take an almost inconceivably huge new discovery to convince me that it predates<\/em> him. \u00a0That would undo virtually everything we think we know about the origins and early history of Islam, and it seems to me extraordinarily unlikely to be the case.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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