D.B. MacDonald on Qur’ānic Origins: Critical Study

Abstract

It is an incontrovertible historical truth that the text of the Holy Qur’ān extant today is, syllable for syllable, exactly the same as the Holy Prophet (PBUH) had offered to the world as the Word of God. Yet a perpetual propagation against Qur’ānic text has been proliferated in the Muslim and Western academic circles particularly in the near past. D.B. MacDonlad is one of the leading Orientalists who contributed with the same zeal and zest creating certain historical labyrinths regarding the Muslim fundamental sacred text i.e. Qur’ān. The study focuses and reviews the thoughts of D.B. MacDonald about the history of origins of the Qur’ān which he presented in his series of lectures delivered at Hartford theological seminary in 1909 and later on, these lectures were published under the title “Aspects of Islam” in 1911.