Muslim and Western scholars cling to the tradition that the Qur’an was memorized and transcribed by Muhammad’s bedouin tribe members before his death. Then compiled into one volume in the Arabic language, by Uthman (Uthmanic Recension), or Abu Bakr (depending on which post-hoc story, and which version you care to believe). Dates are untenable, and range from immediate, to over eighty years after Muhammad’s death in 632 AD. Historical accounts tend to lean towards eighty. I have found no objective written historical proof; only a mass of conflicting stories and tradition that have been passed down from Islamic commentaries made hundreds of years later.

There are several versions of the history of the Qur’an which are accepted in traditional Eastern and Western scholar camps. There are as many divisions on which story could possibly be real, and when these events took place. It’s my contention that these stories and traditions are fabrications which were created at a much later date to fill in the blank spaces in written history.

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