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| MultiAuthor theory of the Koran |
| 2004-12-08 |
| For at least a century scholars have assumed that the Koran is a work of multiple authors. However, largely out of fear, no one has put together a coherent theory stating which verses are authored by which author. Until Now. Abul Kasem's theory is based on what might be called the literary construct (as opposed to the linguistic construct that scholars used in Bible criticism). Who Authored the Qur'an?—an Enquiry Abul Kasem Email: abul88@hotmail.com ...This article delves into the very authorship of the Holy Qur'an.... By analysing, dissecting and carefully interpreting the contents of the Qur'an, the Ahadith (Muhammad's traditions) and Sirah (Muhammad's biography) the author has identified several parties who had undoubtedly contributed to the composition of the Qur'anic verses... The most important personalities involved in the creation of the Qur'an were: Imrul Qays, Zayd b. Amr, Hasan b. Thabit, Salman, Bahira, ibn Qumta, Waraqa and Ubayy b. Ka'b. Muhammad, himself, was involved in the make-up of a limited number of verses, but the most influential person who motivated Muhammad in the invention of Islam and the opus of the Qur'an, perhaps, was Zayd b. Amr who preached 'Hanifism'.... |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #12 Thanks for the info, gents. I know from painful experience that platform inconsistencies are a b**ch. I certainly wouldn't expect Fred to do a work-around, but I'll still use FF since I'm ornery like that. Reminds me of an online poll of browser users that had options along the lines of (I'm paraphrasing from memory): A) MS IE - resistance is futile; you will be assimilated. B) AOL - something snarky about the IQ of AOLies. ... E) Opera - 0.04% of the population can't be all wrong. BTW - I used Opera at the time. |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2004-12-08 2:49:16 PM |
| #11 And he doesn't want to clutter his code up with all sorts of browser identification and work-around JS to make this one tiny little segment of RBdom happy? Why, uh, how sensible! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-08 2:10:07 PM |
| #10 Fred knows about the button -FF glitch, but sez it's a FF issue |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-12-08 2:06:21 PM |
| #9 Xb - I just took a peek a minute ago and see nothing obvious - looks clean (heh, Fred wrote it so I knew it would!) - must be the FF implementation of the Doc object or the JS engine FF 1.0 uses. So, bad baby, whaddya say? |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-08 2:05:55 PM |
| #8 .com: bingo - I am using FF. While I am a geek, I'm not a Java-anything geek, so I'll leave the JS debugging alone. I'll just add them manually in the future (making sure to close them!). |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2004-12-08 2:01:14 PM |
| #7 Xbalanke - Prolly using FireFox - I'm trying it out - and the buttons don't work in it. I'm tempted to look at the JS code to figure out why, but I hate JS so I haven't motivated myself, yet. Gotten lazy in my old age, heh. Mr Badanov, our resident 'Nix lover prolly loves this JS shit I'll bet... go to it bad! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-08 1:09:26 PM |
| #6 There's a good in-depth study (including this topic) at: http://www.studytoanswer.net/islam_myths.html Sorry, I couldn't get the href tag to work. |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2004-12-08 12:58:05 PM |
| #5 Gee, y'mean the whole thing could be a crock? Color me shocked! Who'da thunkit? |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-12-08 10:42:16 AM |
| #4 Dan Rather sez Muhammad wrote it and he has the memo's to prove it! |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-12-08 10:40:54 AM |
| #3 I should have also pointed to some of this early research see: http://www.geocities.com/freethoughtmecca/quranmulti.html In mid 20th century, Cook and Crone came to this conclusion, "..[The Qur'an] is strikingly lacking in overall structure, frequently obscure and inconsequential in both language and content, perfunctory in its linking of disparate materials, and given to the repetition of whole passages in variant versions. On this basis it can plausibly be argued that the book is the product of belated and imperfect editing of materials from a plurality of traditions..." |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-12-08 10:10:40 AM |
| #2 that's why he's using a hotmail account ;-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-12-08 9:58:51 AM |
| #1 This guy is so dead. Is he in hiding yet? |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2004-12-08 9:41:34 AM |