Welcome back to Variant Qurʾan. This is a special unboxing edition; I've just received
in the mail what I presume to be the copies of the refutation, so to speak, of my book,
"Corrections in Early Qurʾan Manuscripts" from IRCICA in Turkey. And so, I thought I'd share
with you with the opening of the package. And, obviously, I've not had the opportunity to read
this yet, so today I'll not be discussing it; I'll just be showing you the books that I've received.
Alright, let's get into it. Let's see.
Alright. Once again, it's very
well-wrapped. It seems like a more substantial ...
seems heavier than I thought. It said they sent me three copies, and I can't
believe that three copies of a 105 page book would
weigh this much, so maybe there's something else in it, or maybe they sent me more copies.
Or, maybe it's just boxes within boxes.
It looks like that might be more the case.
Alright ... the box within the box.
So.
Well, it is a fairly substantial-sized book. That is larger than I expected it to be. So, there you are:
It says, "Refutation of Daniel Alan Brubaker's 'Corrections in Early Qur'ān Manuscripts'". And,
there you go:
three copies, as they said. Let's
get one open and take a look.
I don't want to damage the book itself.
That is really
something else. Very nicely bound, and there you go.
Let's take a quick look inside.
OK.
Right. So, it looks like they've gone in and ... it's got several chapters here,
starting out by a preface -- forward and a preface.
"What is Orientalism" ... they're asking questions about my interest in the Qurʾan, and giving an overview
of my approach to the Qurʾan, the examples presented by me,
and it looks like then they go through the examples one-by-one,
before coming to a conclusion on page 97. Alright, and another criticism directed to my book
on page 103. Let's see what they're referring to there.
Right, so it makes reference to Hythem Sidky's review of my book.
Alright, so we've got stuff to do in the next few days. I will have several things
to do this week, so I will get to this as I can, and make a response to it. It will
sort of, engage what's talked about in here and see how Dr. Altıkuliç has done with this.
Again, it is an academic response to my book, so it does get a response from me. And,
we'll be back in touch with you soon. Thanks for watching, and we'll talk again soon. Bye.