DISCOVERY: Oldest Quran Found Has Little Similarity To Modern Version
Like the bible, and to apparently an even greater extent, the Qur an of today cannot be claimed to be a true version of the oldest Qur an in the world discovered in 1972, written in 705715 AD, and available to researchers in 1979. There are TREMENDOUS differences, an excellent example of one being an original text of 72 grapes being changed to the infamous 72 virgins awaiting the faithful in the afterlife hundreds of years later. The standard histories of Muhammad and the early development of Islam are based on Islamic literature that dates to the ninth and tenth centuriessome two centuries or more after the death of Muhammad in 632. Islamic literary sources do not exist for the seventh and eighth centuries, when, according to tradition, Muhammad and his immediate followers lived. All that is preserved from this time period are a few commemorative building inscriptions and assorted coins. As the researchers meticulously show, the name Muhammad first
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