ACKNOWLEDGMENT BY ORIENTALISTS

Question 1

Who admitted that “no material changes were introduced and that the original form of Mohammed’s discourses were preserved with scrupulous precision”?

Answer 1

H.A.R. Gibb

Question 2

What year did H.A.R. Gibb publish his work that discussed the preservation of the original form of Mohammed’s discourses?

Answer 2

1969

Question 3

Which scholar concluded that “no major differences of doctrines can be constructed on the basis of the parallel readings based on the Uthmanic consonantal outline”?

Answer 3

John Burton

Question 4

What does John Burton say about the text of the Qur’an as we have it today?

Answer 4

John Burton states that the Qur’an as we have it today is “the text which has come down to us in the form in which it was organized and approved by the Prophet… What we have today in our hands is the mushaf of Muhammad.”

Question 5

Which scholar described the transmission of the Qur’an from revelation to today as occurring in “an unbroken living sequence of devotion”?

Answer 5

Kenneth Cragg

Question 6

In what year did Kenneth Cragg publish his work that discusses the transmission of the Qur’an?

Answer 6

1973

Question 7

What does Schwally assert about the transmission of the various pieces of revelation in the Qur’an?

Answer 7

Schwally asserts that “their text has been generally transmitted exactly as it was found in the Prophet’s legacy.”

Question 8

Which work by John Burton is referenced for his views on the Qur’an’s compilation?

Answer 8

“The Collection of the Qur’an”

Question 9

According to the text, who eruditely demonstrates the flaws in reasoning and conclusions of some early orientalist scholars like William Muir and Montgomery Watt?

Answer 9

Muhammad Mohar Ali

Question 10

What is the title of Muhammad Mohar Ali’s work that makes reference to the detailed flaws in the reasoning of early orientalist scholars?

Answer 10

“Sirat al-Nabi and the Orientalists”