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Power, 9 Qgospel, 277-8, 279-80, 296
prayer qari',94-95,197
as means of preservation of Qur'an, qira'at
204 as surma, 152-4
Imamate, 56-57 inaccuracies in, 204
order of verses, 72 isnads for, 203
pre-Islamic era Qiyada (early Makkan institution), 21
Arab religion, 22-23 Qubba (early Makkan institution), 21
development of the Arabic script, Quda'a (tribe), 36
115-8 Qumran, 245, 251-6
early Arabic alphabet, 122-4 Qur'an
Madinah (Yathrib), 18 altering a word for its synonym, j 62-3
Nabatean as dialect of Arabic, 118-21 and anti-Semitism, 339
use of skeletal dots, 136 7 arrangement of verse and suras,
Presbyters, 274 69-72, 72-76
Pretzl, 0., 304 assault against, 342-3
private copies of the Qur'an, 101-2 attempts to reduce to a cultural text, 9
promiscuity among the Israelites, 220-4 avoiding dissension through, 58-59
proofreading of the Qur'an, 69, 106 calls for reinterpretation of, II
Prophet Muhammad (~) compared with the Bible, 54
accusations of sorcery, 50 deliberate Orientalist distortions of,
the amin, 24 308-15
arrangement of the Qur'an, 70-71 determining whether a verse belongs
assassination attempt, 30 to, 203-6
battles of, 31-32 dialects, 62-63
birth of, 24 disputes in recitation, 87-88
death of, 35-36 education of, 59-61, 60-64
final messenger, 44-45 effects on the polytheists, 48-50
first revelation, 25 enormity of forgetting, 58
letters of, 123-4 first century manuscripts, 316-7
in Madinah, 30-32 first revelation, 25, 47-48
marriage to Khadijah, 24 4ufIa~, 64-66
migration to Madinah, 30 learning and teaching, 56-59
miracles preceding his prophethood, merit of merely listening to, 57
25 oral transmission, 94-95, 148
preaching openly, 26-27 Orientalist theories on, 53
references to in the Bible, 262 preservation of, 51, 77
roles regarding the Qur'an, 50-51 proofreading of, 69, 106
states during revelation, 46-47 recitation with]ibrll, 52-53
as teacher of the Qur'an, 59-60 revelation of, 45-47
temptations offered by the Quraish, revisionism, 3-9
27-28 searches for ulterior sources, 8
universality of, 41 substituting with translations, 10
prophcthood, 41 theory of counterfeited Bible, 307-8
prophets arc sinless, xx written recordings of, 67-68, 83
message of the prophets, 43-44 See also compilation of Qur'an;
public libraries, 107 mushafs; multiple readings; suhuf;
Puin, G.-R.]oseph, 4-7,11-12,314-8 manuscripts; San'a'; recitation of