Topic: Quranic Variants

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Sam Shamoon challenges the narrative of perfect Quranic preservation by detailing the history of the third Caliph, Uthman, who ordered the burning of variant manuscripts to standardize a single version. He cites Sahih al-Bukhari to show that Muhammad's closest companions had conflicting versions of the text. Shamoon notes that at least seven different Arabic variants of the Quran still exist today.