The purpose of this page and the links on it are for critique of The Quran, AKA The Koran. There has been a lot of academic research done on the critique of the Quran, especially in recent work. In here you will find links to researchers such as Daniel Brubaker, Stephen Shoemaker, Shady Nasser and others. It has been claimed that Quran has been perfectly preserved even down to the diacritic marks. This claim has collapsed in on itself but it is still the narrative that is taught to Muslims, the world over. Read below for further details from these scholars on this important subject.
I have taken this from an article by another website because I thought it would be a good introduction to the subject of the Quran. Part One of Three Parts.
I have taken this from an article by another website because I thought it would be a good introduction to the subject of the Quran. Part Two of Three Parts.
I have taken this from an article by another website because I thought it would be a good introduction to the subject of the Quran. Part Three of Three Parts.
Stephen J. Shoemaker is Professor of Religious Studies and Ira E. Gaston Fellow in Christian Studies at the University of Oregon. He has written a number of books but a recent book "Creating the Qur'an. A Historical-critical Study" has caused quite a stir.
Professor Nasser, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations teaches Arabic literature and Islamic Civilizations courses. His previous posting was as a University Lecturer in Classical Arabic studies at the University of Cambridge (UK), in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
Nasser put together the EvQ site (with colleagues and PhD students I would no doubt believe) to list the variants that are found across the different versions of the Quran.
EvQ: Encyclopedia of the [variant] readings of the Qur’an is an open access platform designed to study the reception and transmission history of the Qurʾān.
Brubaker has surveyed some 10,000 pages of early Quran manuscripts, documenting post-production physical corrections. To date, he has noted and described thousands, with various causes including (but not limited to) simple scribal error. Brubaker is working on several academic books, but has found the subject is also of interest to non-academic readers. "Corrections in Early Qurʾān Twenty Examples" is an introduction to the range of the phenomenon, written to be accessible to non-specialists. In it, he selects a group of corrections from a variety of early Quran manuscripts of this early period. For each example, he shows a picture and gives a brief description, followed by a diagram showing the correction in relation to a modern standard edition of the Quran.