ACADEMIC BIBICAL SCHOLAR DR. JAY SMITH SLAMMED ISLAMIC SCHOLAR DR.SHABIR ALLY ON UNSTABLE QURAN MANUSCRIPT

Here is a transcript of a portion of that debate in which the oldest Quranic manuscripts are discussed:

"... Shabir does admit that the Qur’an would not be ‘magical’ if we could prove that “someone was deliberately and calculatedly putting the patterns in the Quran [manuscripts]”.

But that is exactly what Dr. Brubaker has proved with the over 800 corrections he has found and catalogued in his doctoral thesis, many of which continue up to and including the 9th century.

Dr. Brubaker shows 7 different forms of corrections; including tapings, insertions, erasures, erasures overwritten, overwriting without erasures, selective coverings, and selective coverings which were overwritten, many with the apparent intention of standardizing the script to one unified and conformed text sometime in the 8th or 9th centuries, or possibly later.

What’s more, these are not simple variant ‘readings’ of the text, but consonantal differences within the 10 manuscripts Dr. Brubaker examined.

Thus, many of these manuscripts at one time included words and phrases which are different from the 1924 Egyptian text, supporting once again that the Qur’an could not be the ‘Word of God’, but merely evolving words of men."


The Classical Debates - Jay Smith vs. Dr. Shabir Ally