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Sunnis believe that the Qur'an is the uncreated word of God. Considering a part of the Qur'anic verse 7:54: . To him belongs the creation and the Command. The exegetes have suggested that this verse underlines the separation between God's creation and His command, therefore the Qur'an isn't created.
According to the Muslim belief and Islamic scholarly accounts, the revelation of the Quran to the Islamic prophet Muhammad began in 610 CE when the angel Gabriel (believed to have been sent by God) appeared to Muhammad (a trader in the Western Arabian city of Mecca, which had become a sanctuary for pagan deities and an important trading center) in the cave of Hira.
After the creation of this standardized canonical text, earlier authoritative texts were suppressed, and all extant manuscripts—despite their numerous variants—seem to date to a time after this standard consonantal text was established. Although most variant readings of the text of the Quran have ceased to be transmitted, some still are.
The Ma'il Quran is an 8th-century Quran (between 700 and 799 CE) originating from the Arabian peninsula. It contains two-thirds of the Qur'ān text and is one of the oldest Qur'āns in the world. It was purchased by the British Museum in 1879 from the Reverend Greville John Chester and is now kept in the British Library. [50]
The Quran contains a creation narrative and may refer to the world being created in six days , although this is highly debatable. In Sūrah al-Anbiyāʼ , the Quran states that "the heavens and the earth were of one piece" before being parted. [ 10 ]
This does not necessarily diminish the value of the collection, but the reader should be aware that this collection does not fully represent classic scholarship on the Quran." [ 2 ] François de Blois criticized Ibn Warraq's work for including the essay by St. Clair Tisdall, describing it as a "shoddy piece of missionary propaganda" and the ...
The Birmingham Quran manuscript, an early Quran manuscript dated to the seventh century. Quranic studies is the academic study of the Quran , the central religious text of Islam . Like in biblical studies , the field uses and applies a diverse set of disciplines and methods, such as philology , textual criticism , lexicography , codicology ...
The Quran was canonized only after Muhammad's death in 632 CE. According to Islamic tradition the third caliph, Uthman ibn Affan (r. 23/644–35 AH/655 CE) established the canonical Qur'an, reportedly starting the process in 644 CE, [6] and completing the work around 650 CE (the exact date was not recorded by early Arab annalists). [7]