[IrfanibnIsmail]

samaleikum,

could someone post good/best articles & videos online on history, recording & authenticity of Quran, for dawa to non-muslims ?


even responses to those who weaken authenticity of Quran can be posted.


wa salaam

[Hamoudeh]

In my experience, educated and sincere yet beginning non-Muslims who dive into these matters should be offered the findings of those who they hold to be an authority in it. These would be the orientalist scholars, and one of the foremost of such authorities on the Qur'an in particular is Montgomery Watt. His book Introduction to the Qur'an is a revision of the preceding authority, Richard Bell's work, he states in the third chapter:

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Modern study of the Qur'an has not in fact raised any serious question of its authenticity. The style varies, but is almost unmistakable. So clearly does the whole bear the stamp of uniformity that doubts of its genuineness hardly arise. ... Our acceptance of the Qur'an as authentic is based, not on any assumption that it is consistent in all its parts, for this is not the case; but on the fact that, however difficult it may be to understand in detail, it does, on the whole, fit into a real historical experience, beyond which we discern an elusive, but, in outstanding characteristics, intelligible personality ... There is no reason, however, to think that anything of importance has gone astray. The very fact that varying and even contradictory deliverances have been preserved is strong proof that, with perhaps minor exceptions, we have the whole of what was revealed to Muhammad.

The book can be found at http://www.truthnet.org/islam/Watt/ - please do ignore the website itself, I actually studied this work so I have a copy, but it is online available there. Of course, this is just the first stepping stone, to get over some of the backward and outdated illusions. It could be used for a lot more than that as well obviously. Unfortunately I don't have a readily awaiting list of other articles of various kinds on the requested topics, but I've come across plenty over time and Google helps a lot in finding them.

Wassalam

[IrfanibnIsmail]

thanks for intresting & useful link. :u

[ayesha.ansari]

instead of reading books, i suggest you to read Quran itself and understand its meaning. only Quran is a true book having words of ALLAH.