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  • What Is the Koran? {comparisons of the concept of "inerrancy" vis-a-vis fundamentalist Christian belief}

    06/10/2021 2:25:59 AM PDT · by Cronos · 24 replies
    Atlantic ^ | January 1999 | Toby Lester
    ...Some of the pages date back to 7/8AD-Islam's first 200yrs—fragments of the oldest Korans. These fragments revealed small but intriguing aberrations from the standard Koranic text. Such aberrations, though not surprising to textual historians, are at odds with the orthodox Muslim belief that the Koran is the perfect, timeless, and unchanging WordofAllah. .... "They don't want attention drawn to the fact that there are Germans and others working on the Korans. They don't want it made public that there is work being done at all, since the Muslim position is that everything that needs to be said about the Koran's...