Within about twenty years after Muhammad’s death, the leader of the Islamic Empire recalled all Quranic manuscripts, destroyed them by fire, and issued official, standardized copies. When this happened, devout companions of Muhammad strongly resisted the recall of their texts, and the records of their dissent remain with us today. So the Bible could not have been altered because there was no central control over it in early Christian history, and as such it was never recalled or edited. But there certainly was such control over the Quran in early Muslim history, and there was an exact time
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