Criticism of the Quran

This article is about criticism of the Quran. For other uses, see Quran (disambiguation).

Criticism of the Quran, the religious text held to be sacred by Islam, often concerns the text’s factual accuracy, moral tenability, and supposed inerrancy claimed by ulemas. Muslims regard the Quran as the perfect verbatim word of God revealed to Muhammad.

In critical and historical study, scholars, such as John Wansbrough, Joseph Schacht, Patricia Crone, and Michael Cook, seek to investigate and verify the Quran's origin, text, composition, and history, examining questions, puzzles, difficult text, etc. as they would non-sacred ancient texts. The most common criticisms concern various pre-existing sources that the Quran relies upon, internal consistency, clarity and ethical teachings. According to Toby Lester, many Muslims find not only the religious fault-finding, but also Western scholarly investigation of textual evidence, "disturbing and offensive".

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