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However, this verse was used in a much less belligerent sense by both
Muslim and Christian polemicists; cf. ECMD, pp. 384, 479.
[159] E.g. cf. Bell (Qur'an, vol. 1, p. 388; Commentary, vol. 1, p. 65),
considering this verse to be Medinan and predating 2 AH, thinks that
Muhammad only meant to say that he was neither a Christian scribe nor
Jewish rabbi, who could read (recite) or write scripture.
[160] See Appendix B, p. 356.
[161] Nöldeke and Schwally, GQ, vol. 1, pp. 156 f, this verse may have
also caused early Muslim scholars to think that this one was of the last suras
to be revealed before the Hijra; cf. Appendix B, pp. 352 f.
[162] Nöldeke and Schwally, GQ, vol. 1, p. 156.
[163] Jeffery, Vocabulary, p. 272.
[164] See Appendix F, p. 413.
[165] Guillaume, Muhammad, p. 239.
[166] This person is often held to have been Nadr b. Harith, but this is by
no means certain; cf. Rudolph, Koran, p. 373, n. 3; Ali, Qur'an, vol. 2, p.
1080, n. 3584.
[167] See Appendix D, p. 382.
[168] It is conjectured that these verses were intended to have been placed
after v. 18; Nöldeke and Schwally, GQ, vol. 1, p. 157.
[169] Nöldeke and Schwally, GQ, vol. 1, p. 157.
[170] Rudolph, Koran, p. 374, n. 10.
[171] Geiger, WMJA, p. 88, references Yevamot 4,10.