Did Mohammed write the Koran

The question of whether Mohamed actually wrote the Koran has occupied Muslim and non-Muslim scholars for many years.

It is believed that Muhammad was not actually able to read and write. So there are two ideas on the writing of the Koran:                      
                    

• First, the Muslim leaders tell the people that Muhammad wrote the Koran and it was a miracle because Muhammad was illiterate. This is in spite of the fact that Muhammad himself spoke against miracles and said he could not and did not do any miracles, therefore, calling Muhammad a liar.
• Another possibility is from modern theological scholars who claim that the Koran was put together later by a Caliph who simply organized notes left by Muhammad. However this is also difficult to believe because a man who cannot write cannot write notes and, second, the size of the Koran would have required Muhammad to write a huge amount of notes. It is only common sense that an illiterate person who cannot read or write cannot leave any notes much less enough notes to write a book six hundred pages long. And, If Muhammad could write enough notes to write a six hundred page book, why didn't he just write the book? The only thing this proves is that many scholars and experts don't have any common sense.

A study history and anthropology for that time in that part of the world suggests another answer: what about scribes?

In antiquity, and until long after Mohammad, most people were not literate and could not read or write. They relied on scribes for their record keeping and long distance communications. Kind of like an army general who doesn't know morse code and instead relies on the enlisted telegraph operators and radiomen.

Scribes were regularly hired to write all sorts of documents, were found in almost all villages, and regularly traveled in caravans. The most wealthy and powerful people had entire staffs of scribes who only wrote and read for them. Mohamed would have known about scribes, would have seen others use them, and would have hired scribes to send messages to others. That was just a common daily practice of the time to the point that Muhammad could not possibly have not known about scribes, especially since he grew up traveling in caravans with his uncle who was a caravan merchant.

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 instead of leaving a bunch of notes he couldn't have written or performing some miracle he denounced himself. This is an obvious answer to the mystery of who wrote the Koran.

Muhammad could have easily written 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 Mohammad 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 for the same and different reasons.

Because the poetic verse used in the Koran was only found in the Hebrew scriptures prior to the writing of the Koran, the rabbis think that Muhammad used Jewish scribes. But they also pointed out the Biblical errors in the Koran as further proof that it was written by a Jewish rabbi or scribe because only a Jewish rabbi would know enough about the Bible to write such references and make the mistakes that were made. You see, Jewish rabbi's have been trained in how many prior Jewish rabbi's used such errors in their writings to send a message to all Jews that what they were writing was not true. Therefore, a Jewish rabbi would have intentionally suggested such errors to Muhammad, who was clearly ignorant about the Bible, in order to write in secret messages to other Jews to not believe the Koran. Such suggestions would have pleased Muhammad since he was trying to make it look like Allah was the god of the Bible and didn't really know anything about the Bible.

Based on their observations and my observations, I believe that what almost certainly happened was that Mohamed used a Jewish rabbi slave to write the Koran, knowing he would be killed after the Koran was finished, the slave wrote in secret messages to other Jews by writing in errors in referring to the Bible, and Muhammad's fellow leaders killed the Jewish rabbi after the Koran was completed and they had disposed of Muhammad claiming he had been taken up to heaven by Allah. Based on all of the evidence, this could explain the writing of the Koran.