413 | Why was the Abd Al Malik-Al Hajjaj Paradigm Lost?

Al Fadi and Dr Jay Smith continue discussing Shoemaker's book;
Creating the Quran.   Today they are wondering what
happened to the Al Hajjaj- Abd Al Malik paradigm. They are not
convinced with Shoemaker's answer, but they think it is a
political reason since Abd Al Malik is an Umayyad , and the
Abbasid came after them.  They continue to talk about
another scholar Robert Hoyland who said that none of the previous
religions in the seventh century has heard of a book called the
Quran.  Then they conclude that the strongest arguments for
a later Quran is the manuscripts evidence which they are going to
discuss in details in later episodes.


 


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