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Dr. Daniel Brubaker has spent about a third of his life looking for corrections in early Quran manuscripts. Erasures, insertions, words scraped offand rewritten. He has documented thousands of them. As Dan explains it, the perfect preservation of the Quran came to be understood as the sign that validates the revelation. That makes it very different from the way Christians talk about the New Testament text. We don’t claim a doctrine of perfect preservation. We claim a high degree of accuracy based on the number and earliness of our copies, and we go looking for the original. If the Quran’s preservation is the founding miracle, then corrections in early manuscripts land somewhere much closer to the center.
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0:33 How a molecular biology student ended up studying Quran manuscripts
3:38 Getting access to the manuscripts
7:55 What kind of book the Quran is
14:17 The standard claim about the Quran’s preservation
15:30 Why preservation became the founding miracle
17:45 How many early manuscripts we actually have
20:45 A gift, P66
22:19 Uthman and the standardization of the Quran
25:21 The Sanaa palimpsest
27:39 What the research actually involves day to day
32:57 Fear, the death penalty, and the Berlin Wall
37:47 Example one, surah 6:99
44:08 Example two, a word that isn’t in the Quran today
46:00 Example three, the missing “seventy times”
52:43 Example four, an erasure in the Mashhad codex
55:25 Are these just scribal mistakes?
1:02:04 People who have left Islam over this
1:09:50 Where his research goes next
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Who is Daniel Brubaker?Daniel Brubaker is a postdoctoral researcher studying early Quran manuscripts. He considers these as material objects and witnesses to the text and its community in the time of Muhammad and the earliest centuries following his death. Brubaker's doctoral dissertation centered on scribal corrections in Quran manuscripts of the first three Hijri centuries. He received his PhD from Rice University in 2014.
What is Early Quran?Early Quran refers to the initial transmission, oral recitation, and textual compilation of the Islamic holy text. This compilation was during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad and the immediate decades following his death in 632 AD.
What is Manuscript?A manuscript was, traditionally, any document written by hand. Once practical typewriters became available, typewritten as opposed to being mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way.
What is Islam?One of the major religions of the world, Islam literally translates to "submission," as a follower of Islam (Muslims) devotes their life to that of their God. The religion began with the teachings of Muhammad in the 7th century. The theology of Islam is based on the Qur'an, which was given to Muhammad by God. Some of the major fundamental principles of Islam include the Five Pillars, which hope to unite all Muslims into a community. Two different factions of Muslims exist - the majority are known as Sunni, with a small percentage known as Shi'a - both predominantly reside throughout the Middle East. Muhammad died in 632 AD and the religion of Islam formally started after his death. The Quran was formally compiled and finalised in 650 AD, prior to which it was 'memorised' and written across many parchments.
