What Western scholarship is saying about the Qur'an with Dr Hythem Sidky

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  @ahmedhossam5398 · 4 years ago · pinned

  TIMESTAMPS: <br> <br> <br>(1) Who is Dr Sidky? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=15">0:15</a> <br>(2) First Question <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=86">1:26</a> <br>(3) How many Quran manuscripts have been produced in the first century after the passing of the Prophet peace be upon him? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=183">3:03</a> <br>(4) Number of manuscripts after the first century of the disappearance of Jesus peace be upon him <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=306">5:06</a> <br>(5) How do we know these Quranic manuscripts have came into existence within the first 100 years of Islam? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=350">5:50</a> <br>(6) How can we be sure that radio carbon dating is accurate? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=450">7:30</a> <br>(7) &nbsp;How did the early Quran manuscripts look like? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=704">11:44</a> <br>(8) Recommendation from Blogging Theology <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=784">13:04</a> <br>(9) did the early Quranic Manuscripts contain major differences? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=816">13:36</a> <br>(10) Are there any hereditary scribal errors in the early Quranic manuscripts? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=981">16:21</a> <br>(11) Clarity on the Qiraat <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=1259">20:59</a> <br>(12) are these Quranic variants hidden from the public? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=1864">31:04</a> <br>(13) Note on a Yaqeen Institute statement regarding Quranic manuscripts <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=2150">35:50</a> <br>(14) Quran was transmitted ORALLY and through manuscripts <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=2294">38:14</a> <br>(15) Clarification on Uthamn (R.A) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=2440">40:40</a> <br>(16) What is Sana Palimpsest manuscripts? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=2931">48:51</a> <br>(17) Clarification on the order of the Suras of the Quran (chapters of Quran) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=3241">54:01</a> <br>(18) does the sana Palimpsest contain all of the Quran? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=3414">56:54</a> <br>(19) moronic conspiracy theory by anti Islamic preachers regarding PHD students of the Quran in the west <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=3584">59:44</a> <br>(20) Book recommendations <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=3743">1:02:23</a> <br>(21) CONCLUSION <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=4062">1:07:42</a>

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  @joshburgess1495 · 4 years ago

  I am minoring in Islamic Studies because of this channel haha thank you for making this channel and educating people

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  @Aws0 · 4 years ago

  I wanted to watch just 10 minutes,<br>ended up watching the whole video.

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  @overmanonfire · 4 years ago

  Dear Brother, there are two point in want to clarify, especially that I am an Arab who studied the 7 Qiraat <br><br>1. for Muslims, the oral transmission of the Quran was more important than the written one, the written one was an aid and went through a lot of evolution as the Arabic script continued to be improved until it toke the current shape. i.e. the dots of the letters, the Vowels (Tashkeel ) and all those were added to aid the non Arabs to read the Quran.<br><br>It is interesting thing to mention, when social media blocked tweets that support Palestinians during the last attack on Gaza, Arabs started writing without the dots in order to bypass the censorship on such tweets, a &nbsp;ordinary Arab can read not only without the Vowels (tashkeel) but without the dots on the letters as well.<br><br>The oral transmission not only kept the exact words, they also dealt with the accent of Arabic Quraish ( how would An Arab from Quraish pronounce such a word). That is what is called TAJWEED, this is why, when you listen to Quran, regardless of the reader from China or Morocco they will pronounce every minute sound with accent of Quraish. <br><br>Hafiz , a term giving to those who memorize the Quran, is not giving to anyone who pick up the Quran and memorize it, no, he has to be taught under another Hafiz.<br><br><br>To be a Hafiz, you have to memorize the Quran, recite from memory to a hafiz-teacher, &nbsp;whom scrutinize every single letter you utter, every time you take breath while reading, when you stop and when you contenu reading. if you pass this strict test, you are giving a certificate that lists your sheikh name with the &nbsp;pedigree of hafizes that goes up the the prophet , and the Qera that you are good at.<br>If you hold the Quran printed by Saudi Arabia, the Standard green Quran, if you look at the back, they won&apos;t list the manuscript they used to write the Quran, instead they will list the Hafiz pedigree whom were used to write that Quran, and pretty much in every single Quran you should find such a list.<br><br>2.Othmanic Quran dealt with more than standardizing the Arabic used to write the Quran, it actually involves more information, it tells you when you can stop, when you can not. When you should prostrate at certain Ayat, &nbsp;when you should elongate a world or a vowel. etc.. <br><br>the Othmanic Quran was written before Arabic script used today toke it current shape, before Arabic grammar was established (and it&apos;s effect on spelling). <br><br><br>the Quran written in Othmanic script, does not match the Arabic language standard written form. As it was written before the establishment of such rules . There were a lot of non-standard practices used only in the Othmanic Quran. &nbsp;The goal was to make the Quran easier to read. Before a standard set of spelling rules were standardized <br><br>again, if you look at the back of the Quran if you have the standard Saudi green Quran, you will find a guide to how to read the Uthmanic script. it will tell you the practices they used to save on paper. to denotes accent while reading. And such things.<br><br>so the standardization of the Quranic script was not a conspiracy &nbsp;to hide <b>differences</b> in Quran or better Qeraat than others. it was just a way to preserve the written manuscript as an aid to the oral tradition.<br><br>Thank you.

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  @danielmasters5484 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Don’t forget to take into consideration that the Quran is and was a memorized book. Any written text of the Quran can be and was scrutinized by those who had memorized it and any discrepancies would be easily discovered.

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  @usmanusm5584 · 4 years ago

  Dr Sidky is a very eloquent and clear speaker. Great answers from him. His point about scribal errors not being hereditary is a very important point: it means that the errors of one scribe were not copied forward by another scribe. Thus, scribal mistakes were restricted to manuscripts. This is unlike the NT, where one scribe copied the mistakes (not in toto, of course) of another scribe. And on and on. What does this mean? It means that Quranic mss were not just copied from other mss in a vaccum. There was a parallel oral transmission which kept a check on the written transmission and restricted written variations.

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  @DWAGON1818 · 4 years ago

  The COLOR of the car is red is the same as the COLOUR of the car is red.<br><br>Now go out and play.

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  @ather319 · 4 years ago

  Intelligence of brother Paul is admirable...he asked all relevant questions to clarify all doubts...<br>Great content as always...<br>Guest is a genius..<br>Allah hu Akbar

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  @iliasalmaudi8365 · 4 years ago

  Great Interview! I think you should interview Dr Asmaa Hilali next. Im from Sanaa, Yemen very close to where the palimpsests were discovered. And when you inspect those manuscripts with that geographical social context its very clear that those palimpsests were student educational material, perhaps for practice, so thr variation in Surah Order is explained because they werent transcribing codices meant for circulation. She makes a very good case for this.

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  @akhbarkhanmohamad6705 · 4 years ago

  Brother Paul Williams is so respectful in his comments and very knowledgeable in his work.Thankyou my brother from Singapore.

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  @think-islam-channel · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0&amp;t=1660">27:40</a><br>Paul, the question you should ask, is whether there are variants with totally different roots.<br>All the variants mentioned here were just due to different diacritical marks on the same consonant skeleton.

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  @ismailaly6724 · 4 years ago

  Excellent! as always, may Allah bless you brother Paul. <br>Subhanallah, The more Quranic manuscripts are discovered, the more our researchers and specialists rejoice. On the other hand, the Christian world fears the discovery of new manuscripts older than the Sinaticus and Vaticanus. This would expose the intentional additions made by scribes, for theological reasons...I am thinking of passages that are being debated even today, such as Matthew 28:19.for example.

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