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Textual
Variants
in the
Qur’an
 
An Information
Sheet
Muslims often
accuse Christians
of corrupting the
Bible. They point
to the fact that
textual variants
exist in
Biblicalmanuscrip
ts as evidence of
this. The
argument, so it
goes, is that if
there is any
variation at all in
the text,
thatmeans God
did not preserve it
and that it has
been corrupted.
The problem with
this argument is
that it assumes
thatthe presence
of variations in
the manuscripts
means the
original readings
are lost and
cannot be
recovered.
Inreality, most
textual variants in
the Bible are
quite minor, and it
is easy to
determine what
the original
reading is inthe
majority of those
cases (upwards
of 99%). Less
than 1% of
variants in the
New Testament
are actually of
anyreal
significance. Also
, the argument of 
corruption based 
on textual variati
on betrays a dou
ble standard: If v
ariants demonstr
ate
corruption in a
text, then variants
in the Qur‟an
should prove its
corruption as
well. The
standard Muslim
claim(based on
Surah 15:9) is
that no such
variation exists in
the Qur‟an. The
following opinion
expressed b
y Islamicapologist
Mazhar Kazi
represents the
prevailing view
amongst
Muslims:Muslims
and non-
Muslims both
agree that no
change has ever
occurred in the
text of the
Qur‟an. The
aboveprophecy
for the eternal
preservation and
purity of the
Qur‟an came true
not only for the
text of the
Qur‟an, butalso
for the most
minute details of
its punctuation
marks as well....
It is a miracle of
the Qur‟an that
no change
has occurred in a
single word, a
single [letter of
the] alphabet, a
single
punctuation
mark, or a single
diacritical
mark in the text
of the Qur‟an
during the last
fourteen
centuries.
1
 However, as
David Wood has
pointed out in his
article
Has the Qur’an
Been Perfectly
Preserved?
, there are
manyproblems
with this claim. It
is not supported
by the Islamic
Traditions as
found in the
hadiths and other
Islamicliterature.
For example,
according to
Sahih al Bukhari,
the text in Surah
33:23 had only
one witness.
Most other verses
were verified by
at least two
witnesses, but
Muslims must
take it by faith
that this one
witness was able
toremember this
one verse
correctly. This is
to say nothing of
the many verses
that were known
to the qurra who
diedat the battle
of Yamama, but
were not known
to the ones who
survived. Muslims
must take it by
faith that the
verses
that were lost
weren‟t meant to
go into the
Qur‟an, since to
believe otherwise
would leave one
to conclude
thatverses of the
Qur‟an had been
irretrievably lost
during those
early years.
 
The rest of
Wood‟s
arguments will
not be repeated
here, but it is
recommended
that the reader
look up
Has the
Qur’an Been
Perfectly
Preserved?
to see the
documented
evidence for
oneself.
Qur’anic Textual
Criticism
 
That being said, if
one does not
accept the
evidence from the
Islamic traditions,
there is also the
physical evidence
from various
Qur‟an
 
manuscripts.
This information
is not widely
available
because the field
of Qur‟anic
textual
criticism is still in
its infancy.
However, some
significant
advances have
been made in
recent years. For
example,there is
the
Corpus
Coranicum
project going on
in Germany,
which is aimed at
producing a
critical analysis
of 
available Qur‟an
manuscripts with
the long term
goal of producing
a
critical edition of
the Qur‟an
(similar to
attempts
to produce a
critical edition of
the New
Testament, which
yielded what is
known as the
Nestle-Aland 
Greek
NewTestament).
Though the
English language
website for the
Corpus
Coranicum
is down, excerpts
from it have
beenmirrored in
other websites.
This is what the
website had to
say about the
project:
The project
“Corpus
Coranicum”
contains two
unworked fields
of qur‟anic
studies: (1) the
documentation of
thequr‟anic text
in his handwritten
as well as ora
lly transmitted
form and (2) a
comprehensive
commentary
whichelucidates
the text within the
framework of its
historical process
of development.
Because of the
ambiguity of the
early defective
writing system of
the Qur‟anic
manuscripts, a
strict separation
 of the data on
the one hand
provided by
manuscripts and
on the other hand
transmitted via
the tradition of 
1
Mazhar Kazi,
130 Evident Miracles
in the Qur’an
(Richmond Hill:
Crescent Publishing
House, 1997), pp.
42-43, as quoted by
David
Wood in “Has the
Qur'an Been
Perfectly
Preserved?,”
4Truth.Net 
,<http://
www.4truth.net/
fourtruthpbworld.asp
x?
pageid=8589953021
>.

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