€2 million EU study EU grant: Marijn Van Putten excites Muslims, but variant codices? Yes or No.

Marijn Van Putten gets Muslims excited by downplaying variant differences between codices and seeming to support the standard Islamic narrative about an Uthmanic standardisation but is his confidence in the accuracy of carbon dating warranted? Stephen Shoemaker pours cold water on this evidence by exposing the multiple factors that make it at best a tool that can give you the century an animal was killed, but not narrow down the precise decade of a manuscript. It is too imprecise to be useful on this question. Then, van Putten discusses the considerable variants in pamplisets that undermines the case for a perfect preservation. Were these companion codices or just early editions on the road to creating a later quranic edition?

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Stephen Shoemaker: Creating the Qur'an A Historical Critical Study https://amzn.to/3sqnVQe