has continued unbroken, and the number of haffaz
can now be Counted in tle world by hundreds of
thousands. The result is that no scholar, Eastern of
Western, Muslim or non-Muslim, has ever cast any
doubt on the purity of the text of the Holy Ouran.
Even such an unfriendly critic as Sir William Muir
writes about the Ouran : "There is probably in the
world no other book which has remained twelve cen-
turies with so pure a text."I
-------------------------------------------------------- Sir William Muir, The Life of Mohamed. Introduction, p.18