20 nov 846 - First Qu’ran in written

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In 846, Islamic scholars in Antioch finished writing the text of the Qu’ran in full. This original copy was forwarded to Constantinople to bolster the ongoing debate about the position of Islam within the Empire, that is to say whether it should be considered a pagan religion or a heretical Christian religion.

Since Leo IV destoryed the First Arab Caliphate, Arab scholars inside the Empire had advocate that the case of Islam should be considered not a heathen religion, but a fully Christian one that should be refuted, but not treated as pagan. These arguments finally accept by Nikephoros I and writtened down in one of his religious works, under his rule, the work that put Qu’ran into written word had begun, and harvested in 846.

The text of the Qu’ran was written in Greek, and it is suspected made a number of changes to the oral traditions that had been carried down since Muhammud’s initial preaching. But, as the manuscript being copied and adopted repeatedly by those seeking to preach in the name of Islam, and the original formulation of the book that prepared under the Caliphate had all burned by Leo IV in his campaign to retake the Empire, the old traditions were mostly forgotten as time passed.

The Antioch copy was accepted by the Emperor’s court, and the book was sent to the Patriarch who studied the work, and taking into account the work of Nikephoros I, the Patriarch now accepted that Islam was a heretical branch of Christianity officially. And the protection given to Muslims under Nikephoros I, which allow them to maintain their own church and only pay a moderate increased tax like heresy, than faced severe restrictions, heavy taxation, and harassment like pagans, become official and permanently with the Patriarch’s approval.

This become a land mark that Milki Muslims, which adopt some mixture of old Arian beliefs and lived in the Empire, slowly part ways with Sunnis, which keeps traditional view of Muslim and remained in the Arabian Peninsula.

Additional information: The key point of distinction between Islam and Chalcedonian Christianity centered around the nature of Jesus. According to Catholic Orthodox views Jesus was both man and god, unified in a single person but with two natures. While the Monophosyte view had been that Jesus was all divine. They held he was two persons, one divine and one human. Islam was the opposite of the Monophosyte view. To them the idea that Jesus was divine was completely wrong. Jesus was accepted as the son of God, but not divine himself. To them he was all human. The Nestorians, by the way, believed that in the two natures, but rejected the idea that Jesus was one person.

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