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From: ut-emx!blais@emx.utexas.edu (Donald Blais)
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Subject: Re: The Torah in the Koran
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Date: 9 Dec 90 01:20:57 GMT
Sender: bes@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Behnam Sadeghi)
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In article <1990Dec6.014559.6623@nntp-server.caltech.edu> bes@tybalt.caltech.edu writes:
>goer@midway.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes:
>>Anyway, I have to admit to being a cynic in the sense that the Muslim
>>story on God -> Muhammed -> Followers -> Quran transmission seems just
>>too perfect to be believed.
>
>I think you would agree that there can be no historical documentation
>on the God --> Muhammad link in the chain.
>
>The Muhammad --> Quran is another matter.  There is ample
>historical documentation about the development of the Quran.  

Behnam Sadeghi has provided a thoughtful reply [see his posting].
Additional detail along this line of criticism can be found in...

Bell, Richard, 1876-
[Bell's] Introduction to the Qur'an
Edinburgh: 1970, 1963, 1958, c1953
L of Congress: BP130.B4
Dewey Decimal: 297.12 B413

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