Canada, Scholar May 16, 1950 – November, 29, 2016.
Andrew Lawrence Rippin, FRSC was a Canadian scholar of Islam.
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 the Koranic texts 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.
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