In the Beginning Were the Words; Muslims and the Koran  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8765 (Dec. 2011), page 41-42.
Topik: Koran; Muslims; Culture; Social History; Scholars

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Religions invite stereotypes, holy texts even more so. Non-Muslims often see Islam as a faith followed by people who hew so closely to an unchanging set of words that they ignore awkward new facts sooner than contradict its message. For critics, this attachment to a text encourages extremists--like Boko Haram, a group that in December attacked Nigerian churches: hotheads can generally find a passage that seems to justify their violence. When it comes to parsing holy writ, there is one big difference between Islam and most other text-based faiths. Barring a brief interlude in the ninth and tenth centuries, and a few modern liberals, Muslims have mostly believed that the Koran is distinct from every other communication. As God's final revelation to man, it belongs not to earthly, created things but to an eternal realm. That is a bigger claim than other faiths usually make for their holy writings. Meanwhile, scholars in Europe, stimulated by the manuscripts in great European libraries, are working hard to find out how and when the Koran's written form was standardised. In America more effort has gone into relating the Koran to what is known from other sources about political and social history.

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