REL STD 5A Lecture 18: Rel Std 5A Lecture 18: Islam Email pt. IV: The Quran (11/18/15)
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Intermittent messages for over 20 years, from god to humanity, via. Prophet"s life or in the life of the community new ones. That"s the purest revelatory experience of the quran. That"s how muhammad and his companions experienced it: Gabriel recites the lines to muhammad, and muhammad to his companions. Tradition says the quran was not collected in book form while the prophet was alive. One tradition says that during the reign of muhammad"s first successor, Abu bakr, after a battle that killed a number of reciters who had the quran memorized, bakr saw to it that the quran was compiled. This would have been two years after muhammad died. songs. Another tradition says that there were variant copies of the koran by the time of a later leader, uthman (644-656), and that uthman ordered a standardized copy be made. This would have been perhaps 20 years after. In any event, muhammad"s followers, not him, compiled the written.