Naturally, if the source is not available, somebody might well be hiding something for worldly gain.
D'you think that of the Official Version of the Quran?
"Qur'anic studies, as a field of academic research, appears today to be in a state of disarray. Those of us who study Islam's origins have to admit collectively that we simply do not know some very basic things about the Qur'an – things so basic that the knowledge of them is usually taken for granted by scholars dealing with other texts. They include such questions as: How did the Qur'an originate? Where did it come from, and when did it first appear? How was it first written? In what kind of language was – is – it written? What form did it first take? Who constituted its first audience? How was it transmitted from one generation to another, especially in its early years? When, how, and by whom was it codified? Those familiar with the Qur'an and the scholarship on it will know that to ask even one of these questions immediately plunges us into realms of grave uncertainty and has the potential to spark intense debate. To put it another way, on these basic issues there is little consensus even among the well-trained scholars who work on them."
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And from sources of countries neighbouring the Moslem states:
"There is no mention of the "Quran" nor "Islam", (nor 'rightly guided caliphs', nor any of the famous
futūḥ battles) by Christian Byzantines in their historical records describing the Arab invaders' advance, leaders or religion; the lack of any surviving documents by those Arabs who "lived through the establishment of the Caliphate"; the fact that coins of the region and era did not use Islamic iconography until sometime after 685 CE...
The accounts of non-Muslim conquered peoples also conflict with the accounts of traditional Islamic literature... Arab "immigrants" (
Mhaggraye) who were invading/settling in formerly Byzantine territory at that time ... never mentioned the terms "Quran" nor "Islam" nor that the immigrants were of a new religion... Muhammad was "the first king of the Mhaggraye", also guide, teacher, leader or great ruler... The immigrants' religion was described as monotheist "in accordance with the Old Law (Old Testament)". When the Emir of the immigrants and Patriarch of the local Christians did have a religious colloquium there was much discussion of the scriptures but no mention of the Quran, "a possible indication that the Quran was not yet in circulation." The Christians reported the Emir was accompanied by "learned Jews", that the immigrants "accepted the Torah just as the Jews and Samaritans", though none of the sources described the immigrants as Jews.
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