Did Orientalists Acknowledge the Quran Was Preserved? What the Sources Say
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The preservation of the Quran is not a claim Muslims make in isolation — it is a conclusion that even hostile academic scholarship has been forced to concede. Orientalist scholars, who approached the Quran with the same textual-critical tools applied to the Bible, arrived at a striking finding: the Quranic text exhibits a degree of preservation unmatched by any other religious scripture of comparable antiquity. These are not endorsements of Islam — they are scholarly admissions made within a tradition that was, in many cases, actively searching for evidence of corruption and failing to find it.
