Review and Critique of the article "Some Proposed Emendations to the Text of the Koran" by James Bellamy

Since some of the difficult wordings of the Qur'an have always been the concern of Muslim Quranic scholars and caused various conflicting views, it has drawn western scholars' attention centering on the language of the Quran. Among the Orientalists, American Quranic scholar James Bellamy, in an article entitled "Some Proposed Emendations to the Text of the Koran", attempts to indicate that some of the problematic phrases of the Qur'an did not come from the Qur'an itself but they are scribes' errors while copying scriptures. In order to prove the claim, he appeals to wide-ranging views of the commentators of the Qur'an and lack of clear meaning for such these phrases. Making the text as close as possible to the form in which the Holy Prophet (PBUH) recited he proposed some emendator suggestions.This article aims to judge six James Blamey proposals and their documents in the foregoing article. A serious problem with Bellamy's view is ignoring the frequency of the text of the Qur'an and its spoken nature. Furthermore, many of his inscriptional claims are inconsistent with ancient manuscripts of the Qur'an dating back to the first Islamic centuries.