Taking a revisionist approach to interpreting the Quran, Amin Ghazaei proposes and examines a bold hypothesis concerning how the Quran was written. This hypothesis is that if we take only the Mecca verses into account, the Quran is a collection of letters sent to Muhammad by a Judeo-Christian sect who regarded him just as one of their missionaries. Therefore, when Muslims later compiled these verses into an entire book, supposedly in the time of Uthman, the third Khalifah, this consisted of the Mecca verses, that is, some part of these letters plus Muhammad's own decrees, written or memorized by Muslims, which today we know as the Medina verses. The author dismisses Muslim dogma that the Quran was revealed to Muhammad by an angel, as well as secular theories regarding the Quran as Muhammad's own words, or the sayings of a hidden wise man who taught Muhammad in Mecca. To reinforce his hypothesis, Ghazaei argues that the text could not possibly have been born of a...

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