A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more
at www.luminosoa.org. Creating the Qur’an presents the first
systematic historical-critical study of the Qur’an’s origins,
drawing on methods and perspectives commonly used to study other
scriptural traditions. Demonstrating in detail that the Islamic
tradition relates not a single attested account of the holy
text’s formation, Stephen J. Shoemaker shows how the Qur’an
preserves a surprisingly diverse array of memories regarding the
text’s early history and its canonization. To this he adds
perspectives from radiocarbon dating of manuscripts, the linguistic
history of Arabic, the social and cultural history of late ancient
Arabia, and the limitations of human memory and oral transmission,
as well as various peculiarities of the Qur’anic text itself.
Considering all the relevant data to present the most comprehensive
and convincing examination of the origin and evolution of the
Qur’an available, Shoemaker concludes that the canonical text of
the Qur’an was most likely produced only around the turn of the
eighth century.
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