Koranic Allusions

As is evident from the subtitle, the latest missive from the notorious Islambasher Ibn Warraq seeks to discredit the divine origin of the Qur’an. Unlike the Orientalists in academia, Ibn Warraq makes no pretence about his avowed aim and objective of ‘countering this nonsense’ that the Qur’an is the Word of God or even that ‘it has remained absolutely unaltered since the time of the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century’ (p. 11). First, he extols the revisionist Yehuda D. Nevo and Judith Koren who maintain in their book, Crossroads to Islam (2003), another title in the anti-Islam series of publications brought out by Prometheus Books, that ‘the Quran is late compilation; it was not canonised until the end of the 2nd century AH or perhaps early in the 3rd’ (p. 25).