Webinar #157 Dr Jay Smith - Understanding Islam - the Qur'anic manuscripts

Recorded on 29 June 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Jay Smith. This is the final in a series of three webinars this month on Understanding Islam with renowned Christian apologist Dr Jay Smith. Muslim tradition teaches that the Qur'an we use today originated with Muhammad, and was finally canonized by Uthman in 652 A.D., and that "not one word, nor one letter has changed in the last 1400 years". But what do the Qur'anic manuscripts reveal? This webinar will evaluate the various Qur'anic manuscripts in existence today, comparing their texts and ages and identifying their possible literary sources. Jay Smith has worked with Muslims since 1983. He has two masters’ degrees and completed his PhD in Islamics, in the areas of Apologetics and Polemics in 2017. Jay is one of Christianity’s principal public evangelists and debaters to the Muslim world. He travels extensively teaching Apologetics for those exploring ministry to Muslims and engages the movers and thinkers of Islam on a weekly basis. He is the founding member of the ‘Hyde Park Christian Fellowship’, a weekly evangelism ministry to Muslims in London’s public places, as well as a co-founder for the Pfander Centre for Apologetics.