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Old 07-08-2010, 09:18 PM
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Default How did the Muslims wrote the Quran?

First of all I don't want any answer from Muslims or Christians. Muslims will say Quran is from Allah. They are deluded. Christians on the other hand will just slander and insult everything about it. They have no manners

BTW, I'm an atheist.

So, basically I just bought a Quran and started reading it. I find the words to be rather weird and complex which I think anyone who wrote it must have been very creative

So how was it written? How many people wrote it? What was the reference?
It's hard to find any intellectual website out there. It always the same nonsense from rude Christians and deluded Muslims
@JOSF : Thanks for the good answer. It makes sense that the Quran took 150-200 years later to complete as it has no grammatical errors. All the verses rhymed (in Arabic). This also explains the scientific discoveries in it. The authors must have put it in during the Islamic age of knowledge.

But I would imagine a lot of people were killed for this to happen and to keep it a secret.
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Old 07-11-2010, 09:18 PM
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It appears to be truly a collection of the preaching and sayings of Mohammed. What inspired him is any ones guess but he is the author alone.
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Old 07-13-2010, 09:18 PM
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according to Mohamed Allah told him he told the scribes

and if anyone believes that They should read Sharia law taken from the Quran 65.4

there is no way a loving god could have written this But a Common Arab could

http://outoftheblu.wordpress.com/

it is the Law Thar all Muslims Must Live By so it is compulsory to all Muslim Men
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Old 07-17-2010, 09:18 PM
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I am reading a book which covered this at the moment. Basically when Mohamed died he had written down a lot of things he said had come from God, others also recorded a lot of what he had said. Under the second and third Kalifa's (about 10-20 years after his death) the writings were collected together by scholars who knew Mohamed and turned into the Koran, all other versions of the Koran were destroyed in an early example of Muslim destruction of any contrary intellectual concepts. There was then one 'official' version of the book. At this point it was common to record speeches without vowels in Semitic languages, this could have led to some mistranslations to the full words. The 72 virgins martyrs are promised may be something different, I forget what but I have the feeling it was food based. Many of Mohammed's sayings, judgments and speeches which he hadn't attributed to God, they were also recorded in books called Hadith.
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Old 07-19-2010, 09:18 PM
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I'm atheist myself, so any answer like 'it was faxed down/send by ems/angel by some god' is sheer nonsense.

At first the Koran wasn't written down at all. Literacy was unusual in that area. Not only that, but writing materials were scarce. The first versions were written down on just about anything. Papyrus, palm leaves, potsherds or even camel bones. (Shoulder bones in particular.) Mohammed himself couldn't read or write. That is an established fact even mo slims do not deny.

But the most important way to preserve the text was to memorize it. Organizing it is related to that. You memorize things very different from writing them down. The Koran is organized by date and length of verse. The later Sara's overwrite older ones. And shorter Sara's come for longer Sara's.

This very quickly presented problems. Those memorizing the Koran interpreted it differently, even if they didn't have their own private agenda, which most had. The Koran was formalized about 150-200 years after mo hammed invented them.
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