Ok! Varför hävdar då så många muslimer att Koranens existens är ett mirakel och att denna enda sanna och "okorrumperade" version måste behållas endast på ett språk; Arabiska?
Det är ju ohåkkbart att hävda att Koranen i sig själv är ett mirakel längre och att förbjuda eller fördöma översättningar är bara löjligt när det visar sig att det fanns fler än en översättning från första början!
I Saanamanuskripten (var faktiskt flera manuskript som hittats då muslimer på den tiden "begravde" utslitna koraner så att de skulle slippa besudlas) har man med hjälp av tekniska undersökningar fastställt att pappret har innehållt flera tidigare "versioner" av koranen!?!?!? Ska vi bara dra ett streck över detta för att det inte stämmer med det ottomanska rikets officiella historieskrivning?
Här är vad forskare har att säga om ämnet;
There is another proof that Quranic messages were distorted in the early days of Islam and nothing like ‘The’ Quran does exist any more.
Inscriptions of several Quranic verses are decorated on the Dome of Rock of Jerusalem, which is most probably the first Islamic monument meant to be a major artistic achievement, built in 691 CE (Whelan, 1998, p. 1–14). These inscriptions significantly differ from the present standard text (Warraq, 2000, p. 34).
"The authenticity of many verses had been called into question by the early Muslims themselves. Many Kharijites, who were followers of Ali in the early history of Islam, found the Sura recounting the story of Joseph offensive, an erotic tale that cannot belong to the Quran (cited Warraq, 1998, p. 17).
Warraq (1998, p. 14) has the same view as Rippin, “Muslim scholars of the early years of Islam were far more flexible in their position, realizing that parts of the Quran was lost, perverted and that there were many thousand variants which made it impossible to talk of ‘the’ Quran”.
“The impact of the Yemeni manuscripts is still to be felt. Their variant readings and verse orders are all very significant. Everybody agrees on that. These manuscripts say that the early history of Quranic text is much more of an open question than many have suspected. The text was less stable and therefore had less authority, than has always been claimed”.
“[For the Bible] the scientific attitude begins with the decision to accept something as fact only if the source has been proved reliable”. Muslims wrongly interpret the honesty Christians display about some variant readings of the Bible as weakness (Ali & Spencer; 2003, p. 76–9). Christians, like Hindus, want to see their Holy book through scientific and historical point of view. When old Biblical manuscripts, parchments or ancient Hindu manuscripts are discovered, Christian and Hindu scholars almost climb over each other’s shoulder to gain an early access to them. Such findings cause great excitement to them. But sadly, no such excitement exists in Islam."
"we cannot rightly be sure at all that the Standard Text is really the “Rasm ‘Uthmani”, i.e. the earliest possible shape of the text." Gerd-R. Puin: “The Alif in Qur’anic Orthography: Vowel letters and ortho-epic writing variants”
But once the Sana’a findings are published in details, Islam will not be the same as it was for fourteen centuries. Islam is definitely going to take a strange position. Many Muslims will cast doubt on sacredness of the Quran, and the very ‘romantic’ concept of the Quran will gradually disappear, and then a very interesting development can be observed. The first question, which will appear in their mind is: which version is superior. But then, it is not possible to choose a Quran and discard the other by preference. Because the Muslim belief also confirms that he, who denies a single verse of the Quran, denies the entire revelation. This is a logical impossibility and since scientific research had already spoken out the truth, many Muslims will seek a way out of this nonsense, and will try to free themselves from the tyrannical oppression of living in a false religion.
Parvez Manzoor wrote, “Sooner or later [we Muslims] will have to approach the Quran from methodological assumptions and parameters that are radically at odds with the ones consecrated by our tradition”
"To protect the Quran from more humiliation, Yemeni authorities already debarred Puin and Bothmer from further examination of those manuscripts. In fact, now they do not allow anyone to see those manuscripts anymore except some very carefully selected non-Quranic parchments, which are at display at the ground floor of Dar al-Makhtutat Library. But this is not going to help; the bird is out of the cage already; it is useless closing the door now. More than thirty-five thousand microfilms are out of Yemen before the authorities came to know; and already, several duplicates have been made. The present author is sure that, at this very moment, in some undisclosed location in Germany, a group of experts are endlessly working on those microfilms and Puin is burning enough midnight oil to complete his book, which, once published, will hammer another nail in the coffin of Islam. Islam is in real danger now."
Vad jag ställer mig mest frågande till är ju inte vilken dialekt som skrivs på i texten utan vad själva budskapet säger. När detta genomgår en textkritisk granskning har man hittat vissa, visserligen få, men ändå vissa skillnader.
Varför görs inte en av muslimska lärda revidering av Koranen, i stil med arbetet som bibelkommisionen gjorde med "Bibel 2000"?
Varför är dessa frågor fortfarande tabu för många muslimer?
EDIT;
Intressant artikel som behandlar Saanamanuskriptens "palimpsest" (palimpsest=a page whose script has been completely washed off and has again been written upon) "To produce a complete copy of the Qur’an of this size, the skin of more than 200 animals, presumably sheep or goats, would have been needed! This also seems to be one reason why the “old” manuscript had not simply been thrown away: by preparing the pages and rewriting them in the now official version the expensive parchment could be preserved. This makes the palimpsest Qur’an from Sanaa a witness of a significant event in the history of Islam: the final redaction of the Qur’an text."
Precis som bibeln verkar alltså koranen vara en växt som "växt" fram! Synd att Jemens regering nu inte längre tillåter någon icke-muslim att få undersöka manuskripten närmre :/ som tur är har foton på alla sidor tagits!