Hi Andrew, there seem to be some sort of formatting error going on after this paragraph: "The radiocarbon dating of parts of early Quranic manuscripts (not whole copies) and a closer reading of the non-Muslim material has produced now a far less draconian view, as scholars see a path to cross-checking what the later Islamic and early non-Islamic have to say.", with some repeated text occurring and what seems to be draft notes at the end of the post.
Hi Andrew, there seem to be some sort of formatting error going on after this paragraph: "The radiocarbon dating of parts of early Quranic manuscripts (not whole copies) and a closer reading of the non-Muslim material has produced now a far less draconian view, as scholars see a path to cross-checking what the later Islamic and early non-Islamic have to say.", with some repeated text occurring and what seems to be draft notes at the end of the post.
thanks. i don't know what happened. it was fine, and then that. Anyway I fixed it now.