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All this stuff about the Koran being absolutely 100 percent authentic really does not hold up.  Mohammed's followers were said to have written down his recitations on palm leaves and to have collected them together.  Let us set aside the friability of palm leaves, but I do think that matters.  More important is that the recitations were written down in what is now called the Persian hand--no diacritical marks or vowel markers were used.  This is critical.  The shape of many Arabic consonants are the same and are distinguished by dots over or under the shape.  In addition, short vowels are not written down as they are in English; rather they are denoted by marks.

Believe me, there can be very large differences in word meaning based on whether one consonant is used or another and whether one short vowel or another is used.  So yes there were many versions around.  Uthman perhaps felt compelled to choose one as authentic, but it doesn't follow that that version exactly replicated Mohammed's recitations.  Not at all.  A trove of Korans was found in Yemen a decade or two ago and they were carbon dated to be very early.  And guess what?  They differ in many ways from what is said today to be the official Koran.

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Very interesting, PP. I read recently that a German scholar has suggested that martyrs don't get 7 virgins after all, instead they get 7 white grapes. This is because of the diacritical marks.[/quote]

I mean, the lack of diacritical marks, which creates ambiguity in places.[/quote]

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