Sean Anthony & Gabriel Said Reynolds 1: Muhammad, the Caliphs, Variant Qur'ans, and Orientalism

This video part one of a two-part series where I sit down in person with Dr. Sean Anthony (part two coming next time). In this video we discuss many very interesting and important topics in Islamic Studies. We begin with the validity of the Uthmanic collection stemming from a number of hadith from Ibn Shihab al Zuhri, we then discuss the case of two suras found in Ubayy ibn Ka'ab's codex which are not found in Uthman's mushaf but are used in Muslim prayer. We move on from there to talk about companion codices in general and what the Sana palimpsest tells us about the phenomenon of companion codices. We finish with a discussion on Orientalism and some prominent figures in the western study of Islam including Fred M. Donner and the late Patricia Crone. Dr. Sean Anthony. Dr. Anthony is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University. Prior to this he was an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton NJ and an Assistant Professor in the D