Scholarship
The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qur'an
Academic study of the transmission, canonization, and classification of Qur’anic variant readings.
- Author
- Shady Hekmat Nasser
- Publisher
- Brill
- Tradition
- Qur'anic studies
- Accessed
- 2026-06-23
Citation
Shady Hekmat Nasser, The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qur’an: The Problem of Tawatur and the Emergence of Shawadhdh, Brill, 2012.
Where this source is used
- The Bible is corruptedThe manuscripts differ in small ways, but the Gospel Christians held in Muhammad's day, which the Qur'an tells them to judge by, survives and can be read today.
- The reliability of the BibleVariants in the manuscripts are real and openly catalogued. They show a text copied many times in many places, which is why its earliest wording can be recovered.