The Koran’s Contents—Not Carbon Dating—Cast More Doubt on Islam’s Origins

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Human Events:

The Koran’s Contents—Not Carbon Dating—Cast More Doubt on Islam’s Origins

 

Raymond Ibrahim | Friday Sep 4, 2015 12:21 PM

 

The media is abuzz with news that a portion of the Koran, which Muslims believe was first recited by their prophet, Muhammad, may actually predate Muhammad himself. Many seem to think that such news will have a large impact on the Muslim world and make Muslims rethink the veracity of their faith.

 

Thus Tom Holland, a British historian, asserts, “It destabilizes, to put it mildly, the idea that we can know anything with certainty about how the Koran emerged. And that, in turn, has implications for the historicity of Mohammed and his followers.”

 

A Koranic manuscript consultant at Oxford’s Bodleian Library, Dr. Keith Small, is more emphatic and “told the Times that if the dating is confirmed, as he believed would happen, it could raise serious problems for Islam,” since “This would radically alter the edifice of Islamic tradition. The history of the rise of Islam in late Near Eastern antiquity would have to be completely revised.”

[Pepper]

I believe the title as written by Human Events is really click bait, since the author Ibrahim himself says "Nonsense. " Nothing will sway the believer.