The Quran: Channel 4 documentary

[livingdead]

thanks @levina.. you are a rockstar.

 

[Levina]

thanks @levina.. you are a rockstar.

I have no idea how a post of mine can make me a rockstar? Lol
You guys must watch the 2nd half of the video if you get time. @jamahir

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

Congrats Levina.. Way to go!

 

[Gunsnroses]

I have no idea how a post of mine can make me a rockstar? Lol
You guys must watch the 2nd half of the video if you get time. @jamahir

What's so special there? Have I missed something?

 

[Levina]

What's so special there? Have I missed something?

Both @hinduguy and @jamahir had claimed that the documentary was boring. IMO, the 2nd half of the documentary was very interesting starting from discovery of oldest Quran, infact I didnt know that such an old Quran had been discovered ever.

 

[jamahir]

Both @hinduguy and @jamahir had claimed that the documentary was boring.

you must admit that the beginning had strange commentators.

IMO, the 2nd half of the documentary was very interesting starting from discovery of oldest Quran, infact I didnt know that such an old Quran had been discovered ever.

that was nice... and the fact that the saudis have tampered with the wording.

 

[Gunsnroses]

Both @hinduguy and @jamahir had claimed that the documentary was boring. IMO, the 2nd half of the documentary was very interesting starting from discovery of oldest Quran, infact I didnt know that such an old Quran had been discovered ever.

Don't be too excited I knew you are coming up with this. Gerd-Ruediger Puin, who discovered this Quran, had this impression shown in the youtube video initially. This documentary is nothing but incomplete, inconclusive as I said earlier. Puin himself admitted that he was wrong as he didn't know the tradition of writing sura. There is a fragment where the end of sura 26 is followed by 37. But this amounts to nothing, since it is permissible to place suras in any order in a partial mushaf. So this is hardly "news" or a "shocking" discovery.

Moreover, after the publication of the Atlantic Monthly, Puin wrote a letter in which he revealed:

"The important thing, thank God, is that these Yemeni Qur'anic fragments do not differ from those found in museums and libraries elsewhere, with the exception of details that do not touch the Qur'an itself, but are rather differences in the way words are spelled. This phenomenon is well-known, even in the Qur'an published in Cairo in which is written:

Ibrhim next to Ibrhm
Quran next to Qrn
Simahum next to Simhum

In the oldest Yemeni Qur'anic fragments, for example, the phenomenon of not writing the vowel alif is rather common."

 

[Levina]

Don't be too excited I knew you are coming up with this. Gerd-Ruediger Puin, who discovered this Quran, had this impression shown in the youtube video initially. This documentary is nothing but incomplete, inconclusive as I said earlier. Puin himself admitted that he was wrong as he didn't know the tradition of writing sura. There is a fragment where the end of sura 26 is followed by 37. But this amounts to nothing, since it is permissible to place suras in any order in a partial mushaf. So this is hardly "news" or a "shocking" discovery.

Moreover, after the publication of the Atlantic Monthly, Puin wrote a letter in which he revealed:

"The important thing, thank God, is that these Yemeni Qur'anic fragments do not differ from those found in museums and libraries elsewhere, with the exception of details that do not touch the Qur'an itself, but are rather differences in the way words are spelled. This phenomenon is well-known, even in the Qur'an published in Cairo in which is written:

Ibrhim next to Ibrhm
Quran next to Qrn
Simahum next to Simhum

In the oldest Yemeni Qur'anic fragments, for example, the phenomenon of not writing the vowel alif is rather common."

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