[DonQ]

My knowledge of the Koran is superficial but I had read, from a reliable account, that the quotations from the Koran that appear in gold on the inside of the ceiling of the Dome of the Rock, in Jerusalem, and supposedly first written there around the 7th or 8th century and thereafter occasionally regilded without change, are different from the corresponding passages in the "textus receptus" of the Koran text. Apparently it was decided, under one of the Caliphs, to impose one standard Arabic text as the universal text, and destroy any variant manuscripts. Occasionally someone finds a scrap of one of those other versions.

[japaneseghost]

interesting

[dread78645]

Apparently it was decided, under one of the Caliphs, to impose one standard Arabic text as the universal text, and destroy any variant manuscripts. Occasionally someone finds a scrap of one of those other versions.

Expanding on the original post from the Atlantic Monthly