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urvoice1 28.04.14 - 10:58pm
A new study suggests that Hafsa bint Umar, one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad, had a crucial role in editing and codifying the Quran and was likely the one of the first people to have kept a written version of the religious text. Until recently, scholarship on the origins of Islam have focused mainly on the actions of the male followers of the Prophet Muhammad. However some historians are showing that women played important roles in the rise of the religion in Arabia. This includes Ruqayya * +

urvoice1 28.04.14 - 10:59pm
This includes Ruqayya Khan, Chair of Islamic Studies at Claremont Graduate University. Her latest article, Did a Woman Edit the Quran? Hafsas Famed Codex, has just been published in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. * +

urvoice1 28.04.14 - 10:59pm
Hafsa was the daughter of Umar ibn al-Khattab, one of the chief supporters of Muhammad and later one of the early Caliphs. She married Muhammad around 625, becoming his fourth wife, but accounts show that their relationship was strained Muhammad even briefly divorced her. Sources portray Hafsa as being highly intelligent and literate. One account even has her challenging her husband over the relevance of certain verses in the Quran. * +

urvoice1 28.04.14 - 11:00pm
In one Hadith tradition, it was during the reign of the first Caliph Ab Bakr (632-634) that he and Hafsas father Umar decided to assemble the verses of the Quran into written documents after the death of large numbers of Qurn-reciters. This text was then held first by Ab Bakr, then by Umar until his death, after which it was kept by Hafsa herself. * +

urvoice1 28.04.14 - 11:01pm
In another tradition, around the 650s the Caliph Uthmn sought to establish a set of bound texts of the codified version of the Quran, which he could send out to corners of his growing empire. In order to have this document, the Caliph sent a messenger to Hafsa asking herto Send us the sheets (uuf) so that we may copy them into codices (al-maahif) and then we will return them to you. * +

urvoice1 28.04.14 - 11:03pm
Hafsas continued as guardian of the original documents of the Quran, and during her lifetime she prevented attempts by the governor of Medina, Marwn ibn Hakam, to have these sheets destroyed. Only after she died in 665 was her version of the Quran torn up by Marwn. Torn up ? I read that the other versions of the Quran were burned * +

s.mcclel 29.04.14 - 09:12am

There's that school playground attitude once again,your god certainly does appear to like child like behaviour.i think I may be able to predict where he'll next make an appearance if you'd like to meet him in the flesh so to speak...........your local swing park sounds like a good bet. * +

phallica 29.04.14 - 09:50am
If Islam can't be discussed without calling Muhammed a paedophile every single time in every single topic, then I'll assume there's no real interest bar wanting to slam a religion. * +

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