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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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