Who Wrote the Qur'an | What Sources Were Used?
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Fred Donner, a well known professor at The University of Chicago and expert on Islam writes:
"The markedly different style and content of diverse parts of the Quran may be evidence that the text as we now have it, is a composite of originally separate texts hailing from different communities of Believers in Arabia".
Stephen Shoemaker, professor at Oregon University, writes:
" It is certainly not clear whether all of the Quran comes from Muhammad himself, and parts of it may be older, while others are more recent."
Professor Gabriel S. Reynolds, University of Notre Dame:
"After all the Qur'an does not encounter the Bible (which was not translated into Arabic at the dawn of Islam) but rather the oral Biblical traditions of late antiquity. This is why references to Jesus' bringing a bird to life are next to his healing the blind and the leper."
Among scholars, it is not agreement whether there is one or several authors of the Quran. There are hardly any quotes from the Bible in the Quran, but many of the stories there, have clearly been inspired by the Bible.