Assignment on Toby Lester, "What Is The Koran?"

     Please read all three parts of Lester's article, "What Is
The Koran?", from The Atlantic Monthly, on-line edition. 

     Here
is the link to the first of the three parts. The links to the other
parts are at the end of this one.

     Please read it carefully. Make some notes. You will not be able
to remember all this material at one reading.

     Write 300 words outlining the major critical scholarly
views about the origins of Islam and the Koran which differ from what
is taught by and to religious Muslims themselves.

     Email to me and to your group.