[japaneseghost]

This is not new. Islamic scholars have known for years that some of the original Koran, which was in the possession of a wealthy family in Pakistan and stolen some years ago by one of the military regimes, was different (but not substantially) from the Koran read today. This makes total sense due to inconsistencies in the modern text.

[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.

[CaptRon]

Uthmar, the 4th Arabian caliph ( I believe he was fourth) is reported to have collected all of the original Koran and burned them, replacing them with a version more flattering to Mohammed.