READING: THE CODIFICATION OF THE QURAN
According to most western and Muslim scholarly accounts, although
sections of the Quran were written down during the Prophet's lifetime,
it was not until some years later that the whole text was compiled into a
single 'book' as we understand the term today. In the following
article, Gregor Schoeler gives a concise overview of the process by
which the Quran came to be codified. His description accords with the
account most commonly accepted by Muslims, but he draws on Western
scholarship to document his potion.
Read the section entitled 'The Koran' located on pp. 200-201 of
Gregor Schoeler's "The Constitution of the Koran as a Codified Work:
Paradigm for Codifying Hadīth and the Islamic Sciences," Oral Tradition 25, no. 1 (2010): Oral Tradition, 2010, Vol.25(1).
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