seeing how shamwow is fond of every wild theory.. I thought it might be worthwhile to see some views on this old CT
If you study history and anthropology for that part of the world, the answer becomes very clear and obvious to anyone using common sense. From thousands of years before Muhammad to long after Muhammad, most people were not literate and could not read or write. Yet these same people managed to regularly communicate with each other, often from hundreds to thousands of miles apart. You see, there were a group of professionals who were considered to be as professional as our CPA's, attorneys, and doctors called scribes. These were well know professionals who made their living being able to read and write and doing so for others for a fee.
It is also common sense that since Muhammad confesses, in the Koran, to have been a bandit raiding caravans and pillaging cities and villages regularly taking slaves, he would have captured many such scribes and would have had his choice of scribes to use for writing the Koran. Therefore, it is only common sense that Muhammad would have written the Koran himself by dictating it to a scribe
In just a few paragraphs of knowledge and common sense, I have shown that Muhammad could have and did easily write the Koran by simply doing what everyone else at the time did, which was dictate it to a scribe, whom he probably had enslaved on one of his many raids. As a matter of fact, he would have had to have been really stupid to not have done it that way simply because everyone around him used scribes on a daily basis. To say that he did it any other way would be an insult to Muhammad's intelligence.
Now, what type of scribe did Muhammad use? There were two basic types of scribes in that part of the world at that time. There were the Jewish scribes and non-Jewish scribes. The difference between the two is that it was well known by everyone that Jewish scribes, especially the religious scribes or rabbi's were trained to be very meticulous and made very few mistakes in their writings. As a matter of fact, they were and still are famous for being the most meticulous scribes in the history of the world. It is also a fact that, until the writing of the Koran, Jewish scriptures were the only place that the same poetic type of verses were found in any writing.
So, if you were Muhammad, wanted to write a very important religious document, and you had enslaved a large number of both Jewish and non-Jewish scribes, who would you use to write your religious document? There is only one answer and that would be a Jewish scribe. As a matter of fact, after I realized this, I found out that a group of orthodox Jewish rabbi's from the Middle East who were fluent in Aramaic, studied the Koran and came to the same conclusion
So, if you were Muhammad, wanted to write a very important religious document, and you had enslaved a large number of both Jewish and non-Jewish scribes, who would you use to write your religious document? There is only one answer and that would be a Jewish scribe. As a matter of fact, after I realized this, I found out that a group of orthodox Jewish rabbi's from the Middle East who were fluent in Aramaic, studied the Koran and came to the same conclusion