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WanderingEng · 3375 days ago · link · · parent · post: Carbon dating suggests early Quran is older than Muhammad [really?]
I thought this was pretty sensationalized, too: This shouldn't shock any but the most devout Muslims. It need not invalidate anyone's faith, though. Prophet or not, their faith need not be supported by scholarly study in the same way that scholarly study should not be made to conform with faith.Some scholars believe, however, that Muhammad did not receive the Quran from heaven, as he claimed during his lifetime, but instead collected texts and scripts that fit his political agenda.