DISCUSSION: EARLY RESPONSES TO THE QURAN

DISCUSSION: EARLY RESPONSES TO THE QURAN

In light of what you have read so far concerning the orality of the Quran, why do you think the aural reception of the Quranic recitation was so powerful in the conversion stories, excerpted from Muslim historiography, that you have just read? 

Based on these conversion stories and what you have read thus far on the orality of the Quran, how do you think all this should influence the way we, as scholars, study the text?